The Cabinet Cyclopædia (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Excerpt from The Cabinet Cyclopædia

Intersection of a Plane With another Plane which passes through a Line parallel to the former Plane is parallel.

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Excerpt from The Cabinet Cyclopædia

The meaning of a term may be made known in either of three ways' First, by another term synonymous with it, the import of which may happen to be better understood; Secondly, by shewing the object or thing signified by the term to be explained Thirdly, by a sentence composed of several terms not synonymous with each other, but signifying collectively the meaning of the term to be explained.

It is the last alone which can be properly called a definition. A synonymous term may not be better understood than the term to be explained, and will itself stand equally in need of definition. To show the object will be effectual, when an object can be found which is a strict representative of the term in question. This, however, is not always the case. The explanation of a term by several other terms not synonymous with each other, is applicable only to terms expressing com pounded notions, and cannot have any application to terms of simple and uncompounded meaning, because the several terms of which such a definition is com posed, signifying many different conceptions of the mind, cannot represent a term which signifies one un compounded conception.

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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.