Combining Texts

All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'works' and 'The Search After Truth'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     specify just one area for these texts

---

5 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals

18086

Weierstrass eliminated talk of infinitesimals [Weierstrass, by Kitcher]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / l. Limits

18092

Weierstrass made limits central, but the existence of limits still needed to be proved [Weierstrass, by Bostock]

8. Modes of Existence / B. Properties / 8. Properties as Modes

16669

Everything that exists is either a being, or some mode of a being [Malebranche]

23. Ethics / A. Egoism / 1. Ethical Egoism

3031	The greatest good is not the achievement of desire, but to desire what is proper [Menedemus, by Diog. Laertius]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 9. General Causation / d. Causal necessity

12726

In a true cause we see a necessary connection [Malebranche]