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All the ideas for 'Letters to a German Princess', 'The Nature of Musical Expression' and 'Letters to Samuel Masson'

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4 ideas

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / d. Actual infinite

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I don't admit infinite numbers, and consider infinitesimals to be useful fictions [Leibniz]

21. Aesthetics / B. Nature of Art / 4. Art as Expression

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Romantics say music expresses ideas, or the Will, or intuitions, or feelings [Scruton]

21. Aesthetics / C. Artistic Issues / 4. Emotion in Art

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Expressing melancholy is a good thing, but arousing it is a bad thing [Scruton]

26. Natural Theory / D. Laws of Nature / 1. Laws of Nature

5467	Euler said nature is instrinsically passive, and minds cause change [Euler, by Ellis]