A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I - Softcover

De Morgan, Augustus

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1534842918 ISBN 13: 9781534842915

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2016

Synopsis

A great many individuals, ever since the rise of the mathematical method, have, each for himself, attacked its direct and indirect consequences. I shall call each of these persons a paradoxer, and his system a paradox. I use the word in the old sense: a paradox is something which is apart from general opinion, either in subject matter, method, or conclusion. Many of the things brought forward would now be called crotchets, which is the nearest word we have to old paradox. But there is this difference, that by calling a thing a crotchet we mean to speak lightly of it; which was not the necessary sense of paradox. Thus in the 16th century many spoke of the earth's motion as the paradox of Copernicus and held the ingenuity of that theory in very high esteem, and some I think who even inclined towards it. In the seventeenth century the deprivation of meaning took place, in England at least.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1534842918
• ISBN 13: 9781534842915
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 210
• Editor: Gouveia Andrea