 Is one grain a heap ? No. Two grains ? No. Three grains ? No. Go on, adding one by one ; and, if one grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say, what number of grains make a heap." 4. The Horned. " You have what you have not lost ; you have not...  Practical Education - Pàgina 173per Maria Edgeworth, Richard Lovell Edgeworth - 1811Visualització completa - Sobre aquest llibre
 | Lucian (of Samosata) - 1804 - 278 pàgines
...natures: such as the Electra, the Achilles, the Crocodile, the Homer, &c. The Horning Sophism was this : " You have what you have not lost : " you have not lost horns: therefore you have horns." Diog. Laert. in Chrysip. (d) K§o!to3ii'A8;.] Chrysifijiue'a Crocodile was... | |
 | William Edward Hartpole Lecky - 1809 - 532 pàgines
...word in a sense that had since become obsolete ; or they discussed such syllogisms as these : — ' You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns, therefore you have horns.' ' You arc not what I am. I am a man ; therefore you are not a man.'8 As... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 510 pàgines
...be not a heap, it will be impossible to say, what number of grains make a heap." 4. The Hoiiied. " You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns ; therefore you have horns." In such high repute were these silly inventions for perplexing plain truth,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 502 pàgines
...grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say, what number of grains make a heap." 4. The Horned. " You have what you have not lost; you have not lost horns; therefore you have horns." In such high repute were these silly inventions for perplexing plain truth,... | |
 | Alexander Chalmers - 1814 - 528 pàgines
...grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say, what number of grains make a heap." 4. The Horned. " You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns ; therefore you have horns." In such high repute were these silly inventions for perplexing plain truth,... | |
 | Johann Jakob Brucker, William Enfield - 1819 - 540 pàgines
...grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say, what number of grains make a heap.13 5. The Horned. You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns ; therefore you have horns. In such high repute were these silly inventions for perplexing plain truth,... | |
 | Maria Edgeworth - 1822 - 436 pàgines
...you which has most legs, a " horse or no horse, your answer, you see, " should have been no horse.3' The famous dilemma of " you have what " you have not...appearance of great quickness of intellect. We should not evert in jest talk nonsense to children, nor suffer them ever to hear inaccurate language. If confused... | |
 | Edinburgh encyclopaedia - 1830 - 842 pàgines
...grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say what number of grains make a heap." 4. The Horned. " You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns ; therefore you have horns." 5. To diese may be added the argument against motion, invented by Diodorus... | |
 | 1832 - 510 pàgines
...and if one grain be not a heap, it will be impossible to say what number of grains make a heap.' 4. You have what you have not lost ; you have not lost horns ; therefore you have horns. 5. The following is -said to have been invented by Diodorus of Caria: —... | |
 | Diogenes Laertius - 1853 - 504 pàgines
...make him bald, nor two, nor three, and so on till every hair in his head is pulled out. The horned one :—You have what you have not lost. You have not lost horns, therefore you have horns. t From i\iyx u i to confute. Alpheus, he was pricked by a reed, and the injury... | |
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