Principles and Problems of Right Thinking: A Textbook for Logic, Reflective Thinking, and Orientation CoursesHarper & brothers, 1931 - 529 pages |
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... body can rise only to the same height from which it de- scended , we drive a nail in at one side of the thread as it hangs freely , at f or g . Holding the pendulum at B again , we let it fall . When the thread arrives at the vertical ...
... body can rise only to the same height from which it de- scended , we drive a nail in at one side of the thread as it hangs freely , at f or g . Holding the pendulum at B again , we let it fall . When the thread arrives at the vertical ...
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... BODY eration verified for an Late in the following decade , Newton discovered that his The laws formula for the acceleration of a body revolving in a circular of accel- orbit applied also to an elliptical orbit , provided that the accel ...
... BODY eration verified for an Late in the following decade , Newton discovered that his The laws formula for the acceleration of a body revolving in a circular of accel- orbit applied also to an elliptical orbit , provided that the accel ...
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... body revolve in an ellipse around a central body in one focus , being diverted from its tangential direction by a gravitative accelera- tion toward that central body , that acceleration must vary in different parts of the path inversely ...
... body revolve in an ellipse around a central body in one focus , being diverted from its tangential direction by a gravitative accelera- tion toward that central body , that acceleration must vary in different parts of the path inversely ...
Contents
THINKING AND RIGHT THINKING | 3 |
REFLECTIVE THINKING AND ITS ALTERNATIVES | 18 |
HINDRANCES AND AIDS TO RIGHT THINKING | 31 |
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