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2. The knowledge of dutiesand obligations, or of what
what } Moral Philosophy or Eth.cs (93.)to be avoided. Jurisprudence (94.) ^ Commerce, &c. (96.)
3. The knowledge of the signsemployed for the attain-,■ment, or communication of)any of the other parts ofknowledge.
Language (98.)
Grammar (99.)
Oratory or Rhetoric (100.)
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History (106.)Logic (107.)Heraldry (108.)
In this Table we have endeavoured to present our Readers with a distribution of the severalkinds and parts of Knowledge, according to the order in which they appear to us to have thenearest connexion and dependance.
Every Science has several terms peculiar to itself; and several, whose sense is different to thatwhich obtains when they are used on other occasions. With these terms, and their appropriatesignifications, the Student should be very well acquainted ; it is therefore very desirable that theyshould be pointed out, so that he may have nothing to do but to turn to them in the Dictionary where he will also meet with the acceptation of the same word in the other Sciences in whichit may be used, and hence he will at once perceive what ideas are left out, or what added todetermine its different sense, and discover how much its signification is contracted or extended:then, by keeping the true sense of the word in his memory, and proceeding in the Science to whichit belongs, he will advance with ease and pleasure.
We shall now proceed to enumerate the principal terms which are carefully to be studied ineach Science; and shall present them under that word in which the Science is systematicallytreated in this work ; we conceive it unnecessary to bring forward the less significant terms, asthese will present themselves naturally in the course of study, and indeed are for the most partalready known to those who have paid but even a little attention to literature. We shall heroobserve the order of the arrangement in the above Table, viz.
(1 •) Mathematics, The terms requiring particular notice in this Science are contained in itssubordinate Sciences numbered in the Table from 2 to 9, as
(2.) Arithmetic quantity, continuous, multitude, number, integer, units, tens, &c. fraction,aliquot part, simple number, compound number, commensurate number, common measure, evennumbei, odd number, prime, or incomposite number, composite number, perfect number, polygonalnumber, addition, sum, subtraction, difference, multiplication, factors, product, division, divisor,dividend, quotient, remainder, proportion, simple and compound, continued proportion, arithmeticalprogression, geometrical progression, ratio, mean proportion, power, root, rational number, surdj
(3.) Logarithms, arithmetical progression, geometrical progression, index, or exponent,natural number, scale of powers, modulus, system of logarithms, with the several terms mentioned
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