This consists of two books, and may be called the foundation of theoretical mechanics, for the previous contributions of Aristotle were comparatively vague and unscientific. In the first book there are fifteen propositions, with seven postulates; and demonstrations are given, much the same as those still employed, of the centres of gravity (I) of any two weights, (2) of any parallelogram, (3) of any triangle, (4) of any trapezium. [Please select]
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Nothing in the postulates of the science of Economics is as ludicrous as its catalogue of human wants. [Please select]
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Each thinker is apt to take the postulates congenial to his own mind as the plain dictates of reason. [Please select]
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He, like other people, has to start from postulates, and to see how they will work. [Please select]
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She recognized that in order to work out any problem of life one must accept life's postulates and axioms. [Please select]
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Rational submission to authority in this or that individual postulates independent judgement on the part of others. [Please select]
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