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" One of these is the proposition that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side. "
Elements of the Philosophy of the Human Mind - Page 96
by Dugald Stewart - 1814
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The Monthly review. New and improved ser, Volume 26

1798 - 618 pages
...general system of mathematical truth. If, for example, it be alleged, that it is needless to demonstrate that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third, it may be replied that this is no doubt a truth, which, without proof, most men will be inclined to...
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The Oxford review; or, Literary censor, Volume 1

734 pages
...as of the geometrical theorem that one circle cannot cut another circle in more than two points, or that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side. Indeed we think Mr. Gambier inconsistent when he affirms, of the former propositions that no doubt...
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An Introduction to Astronomy ...

John Bonnycastle - Astronomy - 1816 - 490 pages
...the earth, M the moon in the horizon, and M' the same in the zenith, and draw MA, MC ; then because any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, MA and AC are greater than MC or M'C ; and therefore, if from each AC be subtracted, there will remain...
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Elements of Geometry: Containing the First Six Books of Euclid: With a ...

John Playfair - 1819 - 354 pages
...general system of mathematical truth. If, for example, it be alleged, that it is needless to demonstrate that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third ; it may be replied, that this is no doubt a truth, which, without proof, most men will be inclined...
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The Works of Dugald Stewart: Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 pages
...by the other. If we attempt to listen to both, we can understand neither. The fact seems to be, that when we attend constantly to one of the speakers,...to quantity, considered abstractly, (to some, for exampie, in the fifth book of Euclid,) which almost every student would be ready to admit without a...
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Elements of the philosophy of the human mind

Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 pages
...Having treated, at considerable length, of those habits in which both mind and body are concerned, 1 proceed to make a few remarks on some phenomena which...to quantity, considered abstractly, (to some, for exampie, in the fifth book of Euclid,) which almost every student would be ready to admit without a...
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Iron: An Illustrated Weekly Journal for Iron and Steel ..., Volume 27

Perry Fairfax Nursey - Industrial arts - 1837 - 504 pages
...given time, will have arrived at the point D. Now I presume that Kinclaven does not require to be told, that any two sides of a triangle, are greater than the third side; and therefore, I suppose he will admit that the line AD, which the body under the action of the two...
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The Principles of Free Trade: Illustrated in a Series of Short and Familiar ...

Condy Raguet - Free trade - 1840 - 472 pages
...a scholar, who, at the threshold, should refuse to admit that two parallel lines can never meet, or that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third. The powerful reasoning of Adam Smith, the clear demonstrations of Say, and the forcible and able expositions...
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Elements of Logic: Comprising the Substance of the Article in the ...

Richard Whately - Logic - 1840 - 508 pages
...consequently in the Terms, which are the exact representatives of those Definitions. • B. iv. c. 2. § 1. KG That any two sides of a Triangle are greater than the third — in other words that it is impossible to construct a triangle, one of whose sides shall be equal...
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A Series on Elementary and Higher Geometry, Trigonometry, and Mensuration ...

Nathan Scholfield - Conic sections - 1845 - 542 pages
...HZ— KZ. Zp common to the triangles HZp, HZp, and angle WLp= angle KZjo, .-. pK = />H. But, since any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side, Sp + pK > SK > SP + PK > SP + PH v PK=PH by construction> Sv + »H, by definition 1, But we have just...
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