 | 1798 - 618 oldal
...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... | |
 | 734 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Bonnycastle - 1816 - 490 oldal
...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... | |
 | John Playfair - 1819 - 354 oldal
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 474 oldal
...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... | |
 | Dugald Stewart - 1829 - 482 oldal
...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... | |
 | Perry Fairfax Nursey - 1837 - 504 oldal
...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... | |
 | Condy Raguet - 1840 - 472 oldal
...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... | |
 | Richard Whately - 1840 - 508 oldal
...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... | |
 | Nathan Scholfield - 1845 - 542 oldal
...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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One of these is the proposition that any two sides of a triangle are greater than the third side. 
