Sentence examples for preliminary discourse from inspiring English sources

In the organizational chart of knowledge at the beginning of the preliminary discourse to the Encyclopédie, Jean Le Rond d'Alembert distinguished between "pure" mathematics (geometry, arithmetic, algebra, calculus) and "mixed" mathematics (mechanics, geometric astronomy, optics, art of conjecturing).

Finally, in 1837, on reading William Whewell's Philosophy of the Inductive Sciences and rereading John F.W. Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy, Mill at last saw his way clear both to formulating the methods of scientific investigation and to joining the new logic onto the old as a supplement.

He summarized his conclusions, first in 1812 in his Recherches sur les ossements fossiles de quadrupèdes ("Researches on the Bones of Fossil Vertebrates"), which included the essay "Discours préliminaire" ("Preliminary Discourse"), as well as in the expansion of this essay in book form in 1825, Discours sur les révolutions de la surface du globe ("Discourse on the Revolutions of the Globe").

Longman's issued John Herschel's Preliminary Discourse on the Study of Natural Philosophy in 1830 with three different title pages, allowing the buyer to consider the book as a free-standing work or as part of one of two series, either the existing Cabinet Cyclopaedia of general knowledge or a new more specialist series on natural philosophy of which it was to be the first volume.

German Logic, "Preliminary Discourse," §1.

See Preliminary Discourse, §92 35.

Begin preliminary treatment.

Martin (1992) began to look at circumstantial meanings from a discourse semantic perspective with his preliminary work on 'setting', however this term refers to mainly locational circumstantial meanings.

As an alternative to lexical cohesion, discourse markers, obtained from a preliminary learning process or provided by a human expert, can also be used to identify topic boundaries [26, 27].

The four "preliminary screw-ups" are "The Prince," Descartes's "Discourse on Method," "Leviathan" (poor Hobbes; always the fall guy) and Rousseau's "Second Discourse".

In our preliminary experiment, we tried to filter out "emotional noise" from the perspective of conversational content by considering lexical and discourse features such as salient words and repetitions.