 | Sir William Hamilton - 1852 - 848 pages
...habit of reasouiiig closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, however,... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1853 - 828 pages
...habit of reasoning closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, however,... | |
 | Thomas Fisher - 1854 - 156 pages
...Stewart, vol. 3, chap. 1, sec. 2. " I have mentioned Mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; not that I think...to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they have occasion; for in all sorts of reasoning, every single argument should be managed as a mathematical... | |
 | John Locke - 1854 - 536 pages
...plain. SECT. 7. Mathematics. — I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that ah men should be deep mathematicians, but that, having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily... | |
 | 1859 - 666 pages
...Of mathematics, Locke said : "I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep in mathematics, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the mind... | |
 | Sir William Hamilton - 1861 - 816 pages
...habit of reasoning closely, and in train, is to exercise ourselves in mathematical demonstrations ; that having got the way of reasoning which that study necessarily brings the mind to, they may be able to transfer it to other parts of knowledge as they shall have occasion.' This, -however,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1861 - 476 pages
...But, Harry, it does not * " I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train ; not that I think it necessary that all men should he mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings the... | |
 | 1872 - 320 pages
...mentioned mathematics a* a way to settle hi the mind a habit of reasoning closely, and in train; nof, that I think it necessary that all men should be deep...mathematicians ; but that having got the way of reasoning, to which that study necessarily brings the mind, they might be able to transfer it to other parts of... | |
 | 1925 - 702 pages
...a man cannot have too much ; it settles in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train," so that, "having got the way of reasoning, which that...single argument should be managed as a mathematical demonstration."22 Simple arithmetic may be correlated with geography and astronomy. History is an important... | |
 | Thomas Fowler - 1880 - 222 pages
...him read Chillingworth." In this treatise, with the same view he commends the study of Mathematics, " Not that I think it necessary that all men should...parts of knowledge, as they shall have occasion." The great difference to be observed in demonstrative and in probable reasoning is that, in the former... | |
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I have mentioned mathematics as a way to settle in the mind a habit of reasoning closely and in train; not that I think it necessary that all men should be deep mathematicians, but that having got the way of reasoning, which that study necessarily brings... 
