Crossword-Solution: TRISECTION
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Trisection | n. | The division of a thing into three parts, Specifically: (Geom.) the division of an angle into three equal parts. |
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| Three-way division | 1 answer |
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| tierce | 4 answers |
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Sentences with TRISECTION (5)
What was its relation to the public welfare of Greece? Into this trisection we shall decompose the coarse unity of the question presented by Van Dale and his Vandals, as though the one sole "issue," that could be sent down for trial before a jury, were the likelihoods of fraud and gross swindling.
They also attempted to resolve the problems of the trisection of an angle and the duplication of a cube.
But this fact, such was the slight knowledge of all things connected with Kant in England, I did not learn for some years.] Immanuel Kant was originally a dogmatist in the school of Leibnitz and Wolf; that is, according to his trisection of all philosophy into dogmatic, sceptical, and critical, he was, upon all questions, disposed to a strong _affirmative_ creed, without courting any particular examination into the grounds of this creed, or into its assailable points.
The three famous problems of antiquity, the duplication of the cube, the quadrature of the circle, and the trisection of the angle, have all been proved by modern mathematics to be insoluble by the rule and compass, which are the instruments assumed in the postulates of Euclid.
But if he was very persistent, and the chase became too hot, it was easy to draw a red herring across the track, the aforesaid red herring generally taking the shape of one of those venerable questions, which, like the trisection of an angle, or the quadrature of a circle, or the secret of perpetual motion, shall never be finally solved.
Quotes with TRISECTION (1)
Thought and science are therefore raising problems which their terms of study can never answer, many of which are doubtless problems only for thought. The trisection of an angle is similarly an insoluble problem only for compass and straight-edge construction, and Achilles cannot overtake the tortoise so long as their progress is considered piecemeal, endlessly having the distance between them. However, as it is not Achilles but the method of measurement which fails to catch …
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Appears in: USA TODAY.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (2001).