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30 April 1815
Chrest. Tab. II

Unhappily, for giving expression to the product of an imagined fluxion
instead of saying fluxionary product or simply product
the (for, the sort of product being determined by the
occasion this single term might in general have sufficed)
Newton has employed the word fluxion. This is as
if an arithmetical addition, instead of the word the sum, the word the addition
had been employed: or instead of the word product
the word multiplication.

In every part of Throughout the English language, and probably
from the same cause more or less in perhaps every
other language, th be the operation in question what it
may, to the operation in speaking of the product, the same word is employed which
is employed in speaking of the operation of which it
is the result.

Thus it is in the instance here in question.
But as in the field of elementary arithmetic this source
of perple confusion and perplexity was not opined
what a pity that in the higher part of the field of mathematics the same attention to weak conceptions
such as all conceptions are at first, the
same care to avoid throwing in their way any
unnecessary stumbling blocks was not exemplified.

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Date_1	1815-04-30	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	018	Main Headings	chrestomathia
Folio number	161	Info in main headings field	chrest. tab. ii
Image	001	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks
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