Citations:quæsita

English citations of quæsita

Noun: plural of quæsitum

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• 1860, William Hamilton, Lectures on Metaphysics and Logic, William Blackwood and Sons; Volume IV., page #311:

  To this we may answer : That the cause why the quantitative note is not usually conjoined with the predicate, is, that there would thus be two quæsita at once,—to wit, whether the predicate were affirmed of the subject, and, moreover, whether it were denied of everything beside. For when we say, All man is all rational, we judge that all man is rational, and judge, likewise, that rational is denied of all but man. But these are in reality two different quæsita ; and therefore it has become usual to state them, not in one, but in two several propositions.

• 1865, Robert Simson and Robert Potts, Euclid’s Elements of Geometry, page #49:

  Hence the distinction between a problem and a theorem is this, that a problem consists of the data and the quæsita, and requires solution : and a theorem consists of the hypothesis and the predicate, and requires demonstration.

• 1876, James Martineau in The Contemporary Review, Volume XXVII., page #541:

  If you take the wrong instruments, such quæsita may well evade you.