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All the ideas for 'Through the Looking Glass', 'works' and 'Continuity and Irrational Numbers'

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6 ideas

1. Philosophy / B. History of Ideas / 5. Later European Thought

7822	A neo-Stoic movement began in the late sixteenth century [Lipsius, by Grayling]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / g. Real numbers

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We want the essence of continuity, by showing its origin in arithmetic [Dedekind]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 3. Nature of Numbers / i. Reals from cuts

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A cut between rational numbers creates and defines an irrational number [Dedekind]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 4. Using Numbers / f. Arithmetic

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Arithmetic is just the consequence of counting, which is the successor operation [Dedekind]

6. Mathematics / A. Nature of Mathematics / 5. The Infinite / l. Limits

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If x changes by less and less, it must approach a limit [Dedekind]

7. Existence / A. Nature of Existence / 3. Being / e. Being and nothing

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I only wish I had such eyes as to see Nobody! It's as much as I can do to see real people. [Carroll,L]