Combining Philosophers

All the ideas for Augustin-Louis Cauchy, Sophocles and Paolo Mancosu

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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]

9. Objects / D. Essence of Objects / 7. Essence and Necessity / b. Essence not necessities

13166

Essences are no use in mathematics, if all mathematical truths are necessary [Mancosu]

23. Ethics / C. Virtue Theory / 3. Virtues / e. Honour

7811	Sophoclean heroes die terrible deaths when they oppose the new Athenian values [Sophocles, by Grayling]