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All the ideas for 'fragments/reports', 'Cours d'Analyse' and 'Nine political essays'

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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]

13. Knowledge Criteria / E. Relativism / 2. Knowledge as Convention

1556	By nature people are close to one another, but culture drives them apart [Hippias]

25. Social Practice / C. Rights / 4. Property rights

6581	Hume thought (unlike Locke) that property is a merely conventional relationship [Hume, by Fogelin]