Cyclopædia
Assuming certainty is required, the following 7 results were found.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
of infinite Uses; as being that whereby Knowledge is applied, or transferred from one thing to another: And of infinite Certainty, as being founded on a self-evident Proposition. It proceeds by Definitions, Axioms, &c. But as the Things themselves which...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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Metaphysicshttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/metaphysics
Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c. Effects hereos, Knowledge, Science, Art, Experience, &c. Conditions, Probability, Certainty, Fallacy, &c. Systems hereof, Nominals, Scotists, &c.
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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
Opposite, Circumslance, External, &c. Effects hereof, Knowledge, Science, Art, Experience, &c. Conditions, Probability, Certainty, Fallacy, &c. Systems hereof, Nominals, Scotists, &c. 8 ARITHMETIC, including the Doctrine of DISCRETE or Discontinuous...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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AMBLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/biotechnology/manage/AMBLE
Tramel; some make it all of Leather, which is inconvenient; in that it will either stretch or break, and thus confound the Certainty of the Operation. In a true Tramel, the side-Ropes are to be so firm, as not to yield a Hair’s-breadth; the Hole soft,...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Manage
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ASTROLOGYhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASTROLOGY
revolve with such vast Rapidity, that the Situation of the Stars is considerably changed in the least Moment of Time—What certainty then, can there be in your Art; unless you suppose the Midwives constantly careful to observe the Clock; that the Minute...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified
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ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE
becomes payable to the Person in whose Favour the Policy of Assurance was given. See ANNUITY, &c. ASSURANCE, in Logic, See CERTAINTY, EVIDENCE, DEMONSTRATIONS, &c. ASSURANCE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Law
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AURORA BOREALIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AURORA%20BOREALIS
of observations have not yet been made by the curious, to enable them to assign the cause of this phenomenon, with any certainty—Dr. Halley, however, imagines that watery vapours, or effluvia, rarified exceedingly by subterraneous fire, and tinged with...
- Type: Article
- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Unclassified