 Englishmen or not-Englishmen,' to the exclusion of the third possibility of a mixed force, so it is false to say, ' Every body must move in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not,' to the exclusion of the third possibility of moving partly...  A treatise on logic, or, The laws of pure thought - Էջ 297Francis Bowen - 1864Ամբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
 | John Keill - 1745 - 352 էջ
...Arguments : and the firft mall be that of Diodorus Cronus ; namely, If a Body moves, it muft either move in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not, both which are impoffible : for if it moves in the place where it is, it will never depart from that... | |
 | Thomas Hobbes - 1839 - 568 էջ
...understanding of this last proposition. For they say, that, if any body be moved, it is moved either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not ; both which are false ; and therefore nothing is moved. But the falsity lies in the major proposition... | |
 | john forbes m.d f.r.s. f.g.s - 1843 - 606 էջ
...which, by the way, it is much easier to see at once than to explain :J " If matter moves, it is either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not : but it cannot move in the place where it is, and certainly not in the place where it is not ; therefore... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1852 - 308 էջ
...not-Englishmen," to the exclusion of the third possibility of a mixed force, so it is false to say, " Every hody must move in the place where it is, or in the place...other. This solution is substantially given by Hobbes, Philosophia Prima, P. II. c. 8. §. 11. c The story is told of Protagoras and Euathlus by Aulus Gellius,... | |
 | 1853 - 460 էջ
...thought to prove that the earth could not move in an orbit. " Whatever moves on," says he, " must move on in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not ; it cannot move on in the place where it is, nor in the place where it is not : therefore it does... | |
 | Alexander Bain - 1859 - 702 էջ
...every one as one of the most certain of all human experiences. He said that a body must move either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not, but in neither case is motion possible ; for on the first supposition the body leaves its place ; and... | |
 | George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 592 էջ
...that all motion is impossible. " A body," thus argued tho ingenious philosopher, " must move either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not. Now, a body in the place where it is, is stationary, and cannot be in motion ; nor, obviously, can... | |
 | Henry Aldrich - 1862 - 380 էջ
...composed of Englishmen or not-Englishmen," to the exclusion of the third possibility of a mixed foree ; so it is false to say, " Every body must move in the...other. This solution is substantially given by Hobbes, Philosophia Prima, P. II. c. 8. §. 11. c The story is told of Protagoras and Euathlus by Aulus Gellius,... | |
 | John Francis Waller - 1857 - 228 էջ
...of motion, and to snpport his assertion hy the following dilemma:—" If matter moves, it is either in the place where it is, or in the place where it is not; hnt it cannot move in the place where it is, and certainly not in the place where it is not; therefore... | |
 | Francis Bowen - 1864 - 480 էջ
...other, when they really have not the same meaning. We must not reason like the physician in Molie're, who accounts for opium producing sleep by saying that...Hobbes."* Hobbes even gives a diagram to prove that a body — quantulumcunque sit, however small it may be — " cannot, all at once, so leave the whole of its... | |
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