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Definition of Subreptions
1. subreption [n] - See also: subreption
Lexicographical Neighbors of Subreptions
Literary usage of Subreptions
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant (1901)
"In mathematics such subreptions are impossible; and it is in this science,
accordingly, that the indirect mode of proof has its true place. ..."
2. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1887)
"In mathematics such subreptions are impossible ; and it is in this science,
accordingly, that the indirect mode of proof has its true place. ..."
3. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1855)
"In mathematics such subreptions are impossible ; and it is in this science,
accordingly, that the indirect mode of proof has its true place ..."
4. Critique of Pure Reason by Immanuel Kant, John Miller Dow Meiklejohn (1899)
"In mathematics such subreptions are impossible; and it is in this science,
accordingly, that the indirect mode of proof has its true place. ..."
5. Sir William Hamilton: Being the Philosophy of Perception. An Analysis by James Hutchison Stirling (1865)
"Organs—with all their blunders, all their subreptions—have disappeared. ...
The subreptions of sense, plainly, if covered, are not by any means removed; ..."
6. The World's Great Classics by Timothy Dwight, Julian Hawthorne (1899)
"In mathematics such subreptions are impossible; and it is in this science,
accordingly, that the indirect mode of proof has its true place. ..."
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