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Excerpt from Higher Mathematics for Chemical Students
Every person, even the savage, has formed a definite number Of concepts; but the concept formed will Obviously depend for its completeness and accuracy upon the num ber and nature Of the experiences whi''ch go to form the raw material Of the concept. The names sulphur, force, circle will recall very different ideas in different persons. In the former example, most persons will recall the properties Of yellow colour, brittleness, combustibility, etc., and the group Of these essentials, abstracted from such non-essential properties as size, shape, temperature, etc, will form the concept to which they attribute the name sulphur TO a person whose experience has never been brought into relation with the Object sulphur, the name signifies nothing; to the scientist it signifies much more than to the ordinary person, his concept in volves the ideas Of specific gravity, crystalline form, ele ment, atom, and the like, derived from past experiences. His concept is distinguished from the other by involving the concept of number or quantity.
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Every person, even the savage, has formed a definite number Of concepts; but the concept formed will Obviously depend for its completeness and accuracy upon the num ber and nature Of the experiences whi''ch go to form the raw material Of the concept. The names sulphur, force, circle will recall very different ideas in different persons. In the former example, most persons will recall the properties Of yellow colour, brittleness, combustibility, etc., and the group Of these essentials, abstracted from such non-essential properties as size, shape, temperature, etc, will form the concept to which they attribute the name sulphur TO a person whose experience has never been brought into relation with the Object sulphur, the name signifies nothing; to the scientist it signifies much more than to the ordinary person, his concept in volves the ideas Of specific gravity, crystalline form, ele ment, atom, and the like, derived from past experiences. His concept is distinguished from the other by involving the concept of number or quantity.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Author(s) - J. Riddick Partington
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ISBN - 9780331569926
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Page Count - 280
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