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"Denominator" Quotes from Famous Books

... Rousseau's reasoning (264 d) as to society being a denominator which prevents man ...

— THE HISTORY OF EDUCATION • ELLWOOD P. CUBBERLEY

... indirect way this feeling of conquering one person by another, only it was himself, his own cowardice, that he wished eventually to conquer. I would ask Dr. Hall if the notion of which Royce has made so much, namely, the social concept, is not one which perhaps would act as the common denominator in these cases. We cannot assert ourselves and get angry without virtually having reference to other persons, neither can we have sex feelings without such reference. It seems that the social instinct or imagination which is carried ...

— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10

... method of doing these examples is to proceed exactly as though you were multiplying all the factors together, except that whenever you come to a number in the denominator you use the CI scale instead of the C scale. The reader is advised to practice both methods and use whichever ...

— Instruction for Using a Slide Rule • W. Stanley

... the period of consolation. We soon find that we are not so much worse off than most of our neighbors as we supposed. The fractional value of the wisest shows a small numerator divided by an infinite denominator ...

— The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. (The Physician and Poet not the Jurist)

... But this desire of yours to scent Japanese intrigues everywhere, to figure out all politics by the Japanese common denominator, and to see a Japanese spy in every coolie is becoming a positive mania. No, I can't agree with you there," added Webster, who seemed to regret the passionate outburst into which his temperament ...

— Banzai! • Ferdinand Heinrich Grautoff

... atom, and it is equally reasonable to speak of the time taken up by its vibration. It is not necessary to believe that the duration that we actually experience as a second must itself be capable of being divided up into the number of parts indicated by the denominator of the fraction that we use in indicating such a time, and that each of these parts ...

— An Introduction to Philosophy • George Stuart Fullerton

Words linked to "Denominator" : divisor