scalenum

Suppose but a man not to have a perfect exact idea of a right angle, a scalenum, or trapezium, and there is nothing more certain than that he will in vain seek any demonstration about them.

An Essay Concerning Human Understanding 2007

The isosceles and scalenum are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding 2004

The isosceles and scalenum are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong.

Of the Idea of necessary Connexion. Part I 1909

The same notion runs through most parts of philosophy, and is principally made use of to explain oar abstract ideas, and to shew how we can form an idea of a triangle, for instance, which shall neither be an isoceles nor scalenum, nor be confined to any particular length and proportion of sides.

A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

The isosceles and scalenum are distinguished by boundaries more exact than vice and virtue, right and wrong.

An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding David Hume 1743

The same notion runs through most parts of philosophy, and is principally made use of to explain oar abstract ideas, and to shew how we can form an idea of a triangle, for instance, which shall neither be an isoceles nor scalenum, nor be confined to any particular length and proportion of sides.

A Treatise of Human Nature 1739

The same notion runs thro 'most parts of philosophy, and is principally made use of to explain oar abstract ideas, and to shew how we can form an idea of a triangle, for instance, which shall neither be an isoceles nor scalenum, nor be confin'd to any particular length and proportion of sides.

A treatise of human nature 1739

'It must be (says he) neither oblique nor rectangular, neither equilateral, equicrural, nor scalenum; but all and none of these at once.

A Essay Towards a New Theory of Vision George Berkeley 1719

Thus should we mention the word triangle, and form the idea of a particular equilateral one to correspond to it, and should we afterwards assert, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to each other, the other individuals of a scalenum and isosceles, which we overlooked at first, immediately crowd in upon us, and make us perceive the falshood of this proposition, though it be true with relation to that idea, which we had formed.

A Treatise of Human Nature David Hume 1743

Thus should we mention the word triangle, and form the idea of a particular equilateral one to correspond to it, and should we afterwards assert, that the three angles of a triangle are equal to each other, the other individuals of a scalenum and isosceles, which we overlooked at first, immediately crowd in upon us, and make us perceive the falshood of this proposition, though it be true with relation to that idea, which we had formed.

A Treatise of Human Nature 1739