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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

Augustus de Morgan

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A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I

A great many individuals, ever since the rise of the mathematical method, have, each for himself, attacked its direct and indirect consequences. I shall call each of these persons a paradoxer, and his system a paradox. I use the word in the old sense: a paradox is something which is apart from general opinion, either in subject matter, method, or conclusion. Many of the things brought forward would now be called crotchets, which is the nearest word we have to old paradox. But there is this difference, that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it; which was not the necessary sense of paradox. Thus in the 16th century many spoke of the earth's motion as the paradox of Copernicus and held the ingenuity of that theory in very high esteem, and some I think who even inclined towards it. In the seventeenth century the deprivation of meaning took place, in England at least.

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Released June 23, 2016
ISBN13 9781534842915
Publishers Createspace Independent Publishing Platf
Pages 212
Dimensions 216 × 280 × 11 mm   ·   503 g
Language English  

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