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12 May 1815
Chrest. Tab. II Conclusion

that by the mere habit of making application of those prescribed
rules would goes but a very little way towards
enabling a man to resolve problems of this description
and that before application is actually made of them
it is necessary to bestow a very serious examination
upon all the several particular characteristics the circumstances of the problem, and on the ground of it carry on abuse given of this sort of reasoning in abundance (fair là-dispus quantité de raisonnement), before he is
in a condition to apply to it those general rules, in
which are comprized the sort that class of reasoning, of which
what we are were during the time that in which occupied the course
of on the calculation we are reaping taking the benefit of them,
scarce any distinct perception has place in our minds.
This preparation, necessary as it is that it should be before the operation
of calculation is so much as begun – this preparation
it is, that requires very often a longer
train of reasonings longer than perhaps than is is ever
requisite in any other branch of science: a train and in the
carrying on of which a man has this great advantage
that a man may all along make sure assure himself of their correctness,
while in every other branch of science he finds
himself under the frequent necessity of taking up with
such reasonings as are very far from being conclusive. More than this Moreover the very process of calculation itself, notwithstanding
the rules of it in that by Algebra the
rules of it are ready made to his hands (quoique
l'analyse en presence les règles) requires throughout
to have for its support a solid substantial body of reasoning
(une raisonnement solide) without which he is at every
turn liable to fall into some mistake. The Algebraist
therefore (La géomètre is the word, but it is in his
Algebraic and not in his Geometrical capacity that on the
present occasion the mathematician is evidently meant to be spoken of brought
to view). "The Algebraist
"then" (concludes this greatest Grand
Master of the Order)
finds in every part of the
field occasion to keep
his mind in exercise
by the formation of those
reasonings by which the always
if the of the
the problem be a difficult
one, he can be conducted to the solution of it.


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Date_1

1815-04-12

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018

Main Headings

chrestomathia

Folio number

100

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chrest. tab. ii conclusion

Image

001

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text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

c2 / d29 / e2

Penner

jeremy bentham

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Notes public

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6509

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