Concept
Metal
Overview
element, compound, or alloy that is a good conductor of both electricity and heat
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Thus a body which is a good conductor of fire readily receives it into its substance, and conducts it through the whole to all the parts, as metals and water do; and if two bodies, both good conductors, one heated, the other in its common state, are brought into contact with each other, the body which has most fire readily communicates of it to that which had least, and that which had least readily receives it, till…
Benjamin Franklin, Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin
Names Metal several times.
Gold is a metal: silver is a metal: so is copper, lead, &c. This is the major premiss. Then comes the minor premiss: All these bodies conduct electricity; and hence results the conclusion, that all metals conduct electricity. The point which brings about a combination here is individuality in the shape of allness. But this syllogism once more hands us over to another syllogism.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, The Logic of Hegel
Names Metal several times; opens on Metal.
Now a scientific conception, instead of using, even with additions, traits of this kind, determines _meaning on a different basis_. The present definition of metal is about like this: Metal means any chemical element that enters into combination with oxygen so as to form a base, _i.e._ a compound that combines with an acid to form a salt. This scientific definition is founded, not on directly perceived qualities nor…
John Dewey, How We Think
States what Metal is; names Metal several times.
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