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18091 | Infinitesimals are ghosts of departed quantities [Berkeley] |
Full Idea: The infinitesimals are the ghosts of departed quantities. | |
From: George Berkeley (The Analyst [1734]), quoted by David Bostock - Philosophy of Mathematics 4.3 | |
A reaction: [A famous phrase, but as yet no context for it] |