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1831 June 6
Posology
Introducto
Mention of elucidation
and effectuation
or 1
Demonstraton
includes effectuation;
theorem, problem
Mention a of demonstration — mention of effectuation.
L clearly , these two operations will be seen to run
one into another. The latter being included in the former: for
of the two sorts of things susceptible of demonstration, one is —
that that which has been undertaken to be done, has, in effect
been done
or 2
Demonstration is
but a means of producing
satisfaction:
thus in logic, as
well as in posology.
But demonstration itself, what is it?
Demonstration a word in two cases — in two senses —
in the logical sense, and in the posological sense: demonstratio
, — demonstr
In what is it that they agree? It is — this
satisfaction is afforded to those for which it is d.
But to what is it. In both cases it is a p
or it is nothing worth.
or 3
conception
sufficiently accurate —
sufficiently conformable
to the real state of things
the case to exclude practical
errors —
The satisfaction is it compleat enough, to afford a
quick to p. as a quick to : that what
is in c of the demonstrator takes to be true, is it a means
to being exactly true, that although it is false and erroneous
the , is not able
that human suffering in any shape were to be made of its
being taken for true and being as such
or 4
i.e: error having
for its ultimate effect
diminution of happiness
In morphoscopics demonstration is taken in a confined
sense — a sense in which it is not taken in alegomorphic
In alegomorphics is said to
be demonstrated. Yet are the that are to
less to be upon — less secure
of practical evil than those that are in morphoscopics?
or 5
In Algebra,
demonstrations none
Yet by algebra, upon
practical error exclusion
is put as surely and
effectually, as by Geometry.
not. In both ways the cannot are the
same: in the case of morphoscopic is performed —
the fiction that in the case in question a figure in case
the effect is subject matter of
they with figures.: which su or say ass
is a false one.. The that are
followed are they the less to be depended upon, that those is which
in
in such falshoods, in
employed?
apply this to qu
of a circle on con
and other
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