Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Johann Herbart and Christopher Janaway

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4 ideas

2. Reason / A. Nature of Reason / 5. Objectivity
21373 We become objective when we detach ourselves from the world [Janaway]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / k. Infinitesimals
18085 Values that approach zero, becoming less than any quantity, are 'infinitesimals' [Cauchy]
6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / l. Limits
18084 When successive variable values approach a fixed value, that is its 'limit' [Cauchy]
21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression
8120 Objects can be beautiful which express nothing at all, such as the rainbow [Herbart, by Tolstoy]