 | John Arbuthnot - 1751 - 336 pàgines
...it's a jign the Kntnvledge of -them is very fmall and confus d ; and where a Mathematical reajoning can be had, it's as great folly to make ufe of any...the Quantity of Probability might be improved to a wry ufeful and pleafant Speculation, and applied to a great many Events which are accidental, bejides... | |
 | John Arbuthnot - 1770 - 324 pàgines
...them is very fmall and confufed; and -where a Mathematical Reafoning can be had, it is as great Folfly to make ufe of any other, as to grope for a Thing in the Dark, -when you have a Candle jianding by you. 1 believe the Calculation of the Quantity of Probability might be improved to a very... | |
 | William Black - 1788 - 476 pàgines
...is D 2 very very fmall and confufed ; and, when a mathematical reafon can be had, it is a» great a folly to make ufe of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a candle fbinding by you. Medical writers, almoft univerfally, have negleSed, or barely fkimmed the furface... | |
 | John William Lubbock, John Elliot Drinkwater Bethune - 1830 - 84 pàgines
...small and confused ; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it is as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have a candle standing by you." — " There is likewise a calculation of the quantity of probability founded on _... | |
 | David Jones (actuary.) - 1843 - 734 pàgines
...small and confused; ani where a mathematical reasoninsr can be had, it is as great folly to mate use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark when you have* candle standing by you." — " There is likewise a calculation of the quantity of probability founded... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1865 - 656 pàgines
...small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as ireat folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you. I believe the Calculation of the Quantity of Probability might be improved to a very... | |
 | Isaac Todhunter - 1865 - 650 pàgines
...small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you. I believe the Calculation of the Quantity of Probability might be improved to a very... | |
 | Robert Édouard Moritz - 1914 - 434 pàgines
...small and confus'd; and where a mathematical reasoning can be had, it's as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a candle standing by you. ARBUTHNOT. Quoted in Todhunder's History of the Theory of Probability (Cambridge and... | |
 | C.C. Gaither - 2018 - 438 pàgines
...very small and confus'd; And where mathematical reasoning can be had, its as great folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a thing in the dark, when you have a Candle standing by you. I believe the Calculation of the Quantity of Probability might be improved to a very... | |
 | Patricia Carr Brückmann - 1997 - 204 pàgines
...small and confused; and where a Mathematical Reasoning can be had, it is as great Folly to make use of any other, as to grope for a Thing in the Dark, when you have a Candle standing by you."** This praise of mathematics may seem an odd passage to introduce into a discussion... | |
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... to no Rules. There are very few things which we know, which are not capable of being reduc'd to a Mathematical Reasoning; and when they cannot... 
