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Oxford Calculators
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In studies of numbers, the idea of continuity is so indispensable, that it is perpetually introduced even where there is no continuity in fact, as where we say that there are in the United States 10.7 inhabitants per square mile, or that in New York 14.72 persons live in the average house.[36] Another example is that law of the distribution of errors which Quetelet, Galton, and others, have applied with so much…
Charles S. Peirce, Chance, Love, and Logic
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The thumb has but one joint, all the rest have two. The bending of the arm and finger is always inwards. The arm is also bent at the elbow: the inner part of the hand is called the palm; it is fleshy, and divided by strong lines. Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand. The joint of the hand and arm is the…
Aristotle, Aristotle's History of Animals In Ten Books
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Arbuthnot, 258. Aristotle, 19, 41, 53, 78-79, 153, 154, 184. Athenaeus, 87. Attwood, 100. Bailey, 84. Barbon, 95. Bastiat, 34. Berkeley, Bischop, 32, 95-96, 155. Bernier, 173. Blake, 133, 250. Blanc, Louis, 231. Boisguillebert, 56, 59, 121, 133, 166, 168, 198. Bosanquet, 124, 235, 242. Bray, 106. Brougham, 70. Buchanan, 147. Büsch, 231. Carli, 205. Castlereagh, Lord, 100. Cato, 170. Chevalier, 154, 215. Clay, 258…
Karl Marx, A Contribution to the Critique of Political Economy
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Part of British philosophy.