Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.

POSTULATES 4 Physically, the book, as you observe, is small and light; but spiritually it is big and weighty. Except for some harmless abbreviations of statement, the postulates together with the definition of certain terms occurring in them are as follows: Postulates of Connectio-i (i) Two distinct points determine a straight line. (2) Any two points of a straight line determine it. (3) Three non-collinear points determine a plane. (4) Any three non-collinear points of a plane determine it. (5) If two points of a line are in a plane, every point of the line is in the plane. (6) If two planes have one common point, they have another. (7) Every straight line contains at least two points; every plane at least three non-collinear points; and space at least four points not lying in a plane. Postulates of Order (8) If A, B, C are points of a straight line and B is between A and C, then B is between C and A. (9) If A and C are two points of a straight line, there is a point B between A and C, and a point D such that C is between A and D. (Io) Of any three collinear points, one, and but one, is between the other two. (i ) Any four collinear points, A, B, C, D, can be so arranged that B shall be between A and C and between A and D, and that C shall be between A and D and between B and D.

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Mathematical philosophy, a study of fate and freedom; lectures for educated laymen, by Cassius J. Keyser.
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Keyser, Cassius Jackson, 1862-1947.
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New York,: E. P. Dutton & company,
[1925]
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