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All the ideas for 'The Poetics', 'Sense Data and the Percept Theory' and 'works'

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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]

10. Modality / B. Possibility / 1. Possibility

22518

The actual must be possible, because it occurred [Aristotle]

12. Knowledge Sources / B. Perception / 4. Sense Data / d. Sense-data problems

6493	We are not conscious of pure liquidity, but of the liquidity of water [Firth]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 8. The Arts / b. Literature

16566

Poetry is more philosophic than history, as it concerns universals, not particulars [Aristotle]