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All the ideas for 'Cours d'Analyse', 'Positions' and 'Intro to 'Provenance of Pure Reason''

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5 ideas

1. Philosophy / H. Continental Philosophy / 6. Deconstruction

8216	Deconstruction is not neutral; it intervenes [Derrida]

2. Reason / C. Styles of Reason / 1. Dialectic

8213	I try to analyse certain verbal concepts which block and confuse the dialectical process [Derrida]

5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 1. Axiomatisation

13416

Mathematics must be based on axioms, which are true because they are axioms, not vice versa [Tait, by Parsons,C]

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]