EQUIVALENT THINGS, are either moral, physical, or statistical. Moral, as when we say that the commanding or advising a murder is a guilt equivalent to that of the murderer. Physical, as when a man who has the strength of two men is said to be equivalent to two men. Statistical, whereby a less weight becomes of equal force with a greater, by having its distance from the centre increased.
EQUIVALENT THINGS
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