Citations:chiliahedron

English citations of chiliahedrons, chiliahedron, and chiliahedra

• ante 1855, Lady Emmeline Charlotte Elizabeth Stuart-Wortley, The Sweet South, volume II (1856), chapter i, page 15:

  However, there is much to be said on the other side, too; — and what question was there ever yet mooted or disputed that had not two sides? — generally, in sooth, they are octagons: some, indeed, are chiliahedrons! This colouring question, however, is not a thousand-sided one, assuredly, though it may have a pro and con or two.

• 1914, Emil Carl Wilm and Rudolf Pintner (translators), Otto Klemm (author), A History of Psychology, C. Scribner’s Sons, page 182:

  […] certain epistemological distinctions in Locke, to whom the narrowness of consciousness was a familiar concept, and who discussed the psychological distinctions between clear and obscure, distinct and confused ideas.³ A chiliahedron and […]

• 1957, Jesse Hauk Shera et al. (editors), Information Systems in Documentation, Interscience Publishers, ISSN 0515-4685, page 13:

  […] polyhedron is an abstraction for a series of two-dimensional geometric figures beginning with a triangle and including the chiliahedron of one thousand sides.

• 1971, Indiana University Bloomington Research Center for the Language Sciences, Language Sciences, issues 14–28, page 8:

  Locke uses both the triangle and a chiliahedron several times, both in the Essay and elsewhere.

• ibidem, page 9:

  I urge my readers to inspect the other examples in both Descartes and Locke, especially on the chiliagon and the chiliahedron; all of which support my argument that (I) one must fear that Professor Chomsky has not read Locke’s Essay so as to come upon these passages in Locke, since it wouls certainly then have been a plain obligation to explain to the reader how “Locke’s caricature” is still altogether different from the innateness we are asked so readily to assent to in Descartes.

• 1974, John Locke (author), Anthony Douglas Woozley (editor), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, volume 1 of 2, New American Library (abridged reprint), book II, chapter xxix, § 14: “This, if not heeded, causes Confusion in our Arguings.”, page 231:

  He that thinks he has a distinct idea of the figure of a chiliahedron, let him for trial’s sake take another parcel of the same uniform matter, viz. gold or wax of an equal bulk, and make it into a figure of 999 sides.

• 1975, Ian Hacking, Why Does Language Matter to Philosophy?, Cambridge University Press (2001 digital reprint), →ISBN, part A: “The heyday of ideas”, chapter 3: ‘Port Royal’s ideas’, page 28:

  I cannot form an image of a figure with exactly one thousand sides but I can reason accurately about chiliahedra, and this involves conceiving the idea.