Cyclopædia
Assuming demonstrations is required, the following 33 results were found.
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THE PREFACEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/preface
is to relate, or enumerate the several Matters belonging thereto, without investigating or demonstrating their truth: Demonstrations, strictly speaking, have nothing to do in a Dictionary, no more than authentick Instruments, Declarations, &c. in a...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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APAGOGICAL Demonstration, is such as does not prove the thing directly, but shows the Impossibility and Absurdity which arises from denying it. See DEMONSTRATION. Hence it is also called, Reductio ad impossibile, or ad absurdum. See REDUCTION and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DEMONSTRATIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEMONSTRATION
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DEMONSTRATIVEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEMONSTRATIVE
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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DEMONSTRABLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/DEMONSTRABLE
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ARITHMETIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARITHMETIC
Arithmetic, is the Science of the Properties, Relations, &c. of Numbers considered abstractedly; with the Reasons and Demonstrations of the several Rules. See NUMBER. Euclid furnishes a Theoretical Arithmetic, in the seventh, eighth, and ninth Books of...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANALYSIShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/logics/ANALYSIS
Signs for Ideas, presents Things to the Imagination, which otherwise seemed out of its Sphere. By this, Geometrical Demonstrations may be wonderfully abridged; and a long Series of Argumentations, wherein the Mind cannot without the utmost Effort and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Logics
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AIRhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/AIR
Part of the Researches and Discoveries of the modern Philosophers, have some of them been reduced to precise Laws and Demonstrations; in which form they make a Branch of Mathematics, called Pneumatics, or Aerometry. See MATHEMATICS, PNEUMATICS, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Physics
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APODICTICAL Argumenthttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/APODICTICAL%20Argument
APODICTICAL Argument, or Syllogism, Signifies a clear, convincing Proof, or Demonstration of a Thing. See DEMONSTRATION, ARGUMENT, etc. The Word is formed of the Greek ἀποδεικτικός (apodeiktikos), I demonstrate, I show clearly. APODICTICAL Argument
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANGLE%20IN%20A%20SEMICIRCLE
ANGLE IN A SEMICIRCLE, is an Angle in a Segment of a Circle, whose Base is a Diameter thereof. See SEGMENT. It is demonstrated by Euclid, that the Angle in a Semicircle is a right one; in a Segment greater than a Semicircle, is less than a right one;...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANGLEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mathematics/geometry/ANGLE
ANGLE, Ἀγκύλος, in Geometry, the Aperture or mutual Inclination of two Lines, which meet, and form an Angle in their Point of Intersection. See LINE. Such is the Angle ABC, (Tab. Geometry, Fig. 91.) formed by the Lines AB, and AC, meeting in the Point...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geometry
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ANTIPODEShttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/geography/ANTIPODES
and Equity: in regard the Notion of Antipodes was very different in those days, from what it is now—"For besides the Demonstrations of the Mathematicians, say they, the Philosophers too added their Conjectures; and asserted that the Sea made two great...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Geography
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AXIOMhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/AXIOM
AXIOM, ἀξίωμα, a self-evident truth; or a proposition whose truth every person perceives at first sight. See TRUTH and PROPOSITION. Thus, that the whole is greater than a part; that a thing cannot give what itself has not; that a thing cannot be and not...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ANALYTIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ANALYTIC
ANALYTIC, Analytical, something that belongs to, or partakes of the Nature of Analysis. See ANALYSIS. Thus, we say, an Analytical Demonstration; Analytical Enquiry; Analytical Table, or Scheme; Analytic Method, etc. See METHOD. The Analytic Method...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ABSTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/physics/philosophy/ABSTRACTION
ABSTRACTION, an Operation of the Mind, whereby we separate Things naturally conjunct, or existing together ; and form and consider Ideas of Things thus separated. See ABSTRACT. The Faculty of Abstracting, stands directly opposite to that of Compounding...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Philosophy
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ATTRACTIONhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/mix-d-mathematics/mechanics/ATTRACTION
ATTRACTION, Attractio, or Tractio, in Mechanics, the Act of a moving Power, whereby a Moveable is brought nearer to the Mover. See POWER and MOTION. As Action and Re-action are always equal, and contrary; it follows, that in all Attraction, the Mover is...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ARCHITECTONIChttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ARCHITECTONIC
Elements of Architecture are laid down bySir H. Wotton—The same are reduced by Sturm, and Wolf, to certain rules and demonstrations; and thus is Architecture brought into the form of a Mathematical Art;by the first, in his Mathematicis Juvenilis, and...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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ASSURANCEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/religion/law/ASSURANCE
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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VIEW OF KNOWLEDGEhttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/view-of-knowledge
1 METEOROLOGY, or the History of AIR and ATMOSPHERE: including, 1°, that of its Contents, Æther,Fire,Vapour, Exhalation, &c. 2°, Meteors form'd therein, as Cloud, Rain, Shower, Drop, Snow, Hail, Dew, Damp, &c. Rainbow, Parhelion, Halo, Thunder, Water-...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
- Category: Introduction
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ASSENThttps://chambers.encyclo.eu/index.php/unclassified/ASSENT
ASSENT, Assensus,an agreement or acquiescence of the mind, to something proposed, or affirmed.—Thus, to assent to any proposition, is to allow it true, or to perceive its truth. See TRUTH. The Schoolmen observe, that to every proposition, however...
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- Author: Ephraïm Chambers
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