| John Keill - 1745 - 352 páginas
...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 páginas
...the not 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 páginas
...of 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, Henry Longueville Mansel - 1852 - 308 páginas
...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 where it is not," to the exclusion of the third possibility of moving partly in the one and partly in the other. This... | |
| 1853 - 460 páginas
...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 páginas
...itself is felt by 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 the... | |
| George Augustus Sala, Edmund Yates - 1887 - 592 páginas
...sought to prove 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... | |
| John Francis Waller - 1857 - 228 páginas
...existence 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 páginas
...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 in the one and partly in the other. This... | |
| Francis Bowen - 1864 - 472 páginas
...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 in the one and partly in the other. This... | |
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