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1831. July 4
Posology.

§ Abuse of Posology.

1.
Ascribed commonly to
Posology are "collateral
uses — viz.
Uses distinct from
those made of it by
application of it to
physics

§.

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Abuse of Mathematics

1. Applying to subjects to
which it is inapplicable
— Examples

1. By "Petoin on Mind"
employment given given
to Algebra.

2. By The writer in Westr.
Rev, No 12.2, to Polit.
Economy.

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2. Applying it without
previous or sufficient
consideration of the correctness
of the notion
to which it is employed
in giving currency
and establishment.
Examples

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1. Condoreet assuming
that the probability
of aptitude in judicature
is as the number
of the Judges then
ringing the changes on
the number by discourse
on algebraical forms.

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2. Employing mathematical
disquisition relative to
cooperative forces, without
making sure of
having in contemplation
a list of all the
forces so cooperating.

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Euler's and other
mathematical works
on ship-building.

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3. Price and others employing
mathematics
to the mode of paying
off the national
debt.

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3.* Dr Price — his demonstration
of the probability
of improbablities.
Not improbable that
a ticket should turn
up a prize though
there were a million
to one against it.
True of each No it is
not probable it should
turn up a prize as
of every other: and that
there will be one
prize is matter of
certainty. In truth
the chance of every
one is an equal
chance: i.e. as 1 to 1.

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3. Wasting time in applying
it to the relation between
quantities not
realized, or from the
determination of which
no practical use is
derivable.

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4. Employing it in
turning men's minds,
especially those of
youth at the period
of education, from
useful subjects — such
as morals, including
politics & religion,
to keep them from
the perception of truths
useful to the general
interest but adverse
to the particular
and sinister interest
of these instructors —
Oxford & Cambridge.

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