I HAVE read the passage referred to, but for many reasons cannot admit that the argument is conclusive. In the first place, the quotation from Aristotle's “Ethics” has no authority whatever; it has no ...

Straight-line depreciation involves reporting the same amount of depreciation expense each year. (If you were to draw the graph of the expense over time, it would form a straight horizontal line, ...

The Straight Line Euclid's definition of it is worthless, but his axioms remain basically sound. His successors in mathematics have extended his ideas to the curved line and a clearer concept of ...

ON p. 409 your reviewer states that “Euclid says nothing about the extreme points of the line” in his definition of a straight line, but regards “all the points on it.” ...