These are said not to be moments, but quantities generated from moments, which last are only the nascent principles of finite quantities. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be neglected in mathematics : that the fluxions are celerities, not... Proceedings of the Edinburgh Mathematical Society - Page 13by Edinburgh Mathematical Society - 1899Full view - About this book
| George Berkeley - 1820 - 474 pages
...decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. IV. By moments we are not to understand finite particles....second fluxions are called third fluxions : and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception... | |
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...quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. IV. By moments we are not to understand fmite particles. These are said not to be moments, but quantities...fluxions. And the fluxions of these second fluxions are culled third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad itifinitum. Now, as our sense is strained... | |
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...nothing. May we not call them ghosts of departed quantities? — BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be...second fluxions are called third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., ad infinitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception... | |
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...BERKELEY, G. The Analyst, sect. 35. 1944. It is said that the minutest errors are not to be neglected hi mathematics; that the fluxions are celerities, not...second fluxions are called third fluxions: and so on, fourth, fifth, sixth, etc., ad inflnitum. Now, as our Sense is strained and puzzled with the perception... | |
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...or decrements of undetermined flowing quantities are considered, under the appellation of moments. 4 By moments we are not to understand finite particles....these second fluxions are called third fluxions: and soon, fourth, fifth, sixth, &c. ad infinitum. Now, as our sense is strained and puzzled with the perception... | |
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