Noun
Connection. See Connection.
Source: Webster's dictionaryA science only advances with certainty, when the plan of inquiry and the object of our researches have been clearly defined; otherwise a small number of truths are loosely laid hold of, without their connexion being perceived, and numerous errors, without being enabled to detect their fallacy. Jean-Baptiste Say
The great rule of conduct for us, in regard to foreign nations, is, in extending our commercial relations, to have with them as little political connexion as possible. So far as we have already formed engagements, let them be fulfilled with perfect good faith. Here let us stop. George Washington
To a modern reader the connexion at first site may not be obvious between the activity of the hangman and the productivity of the earth. James Frazer
The necessary connexion of movement and time is real and time is something the soul (dhihn) constructs in movement. Averroes
Of a number of variant hypotheses about the same facts, that one is true which shows why facts, which in the other hypotheses remain unrelated, are as they are, i. e., which demonstrates their orderly and rational mathematical connexion. Johannes Kepler
Experience has convinced me that the proper way of teaching is to bring together that which is simple from all quarters, and, if I may use such a phrase, to draw upon the surface of the subject a proper mean between the line of closest connexion and the line of easiest deduction. Augustus De Morgan