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All the ideas for 'Isagoge ('Introduction')', 'Cours d'Analyse' and 'Metaphysical conseqs of principle of reason'

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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]

7. Existence / C. Structure of Existence / 6. Fundamentals / c. Monads

5060	All substances analyse down to simple substances, which are souls, or 'monads' [Leibniz]

8. Modes of Existence / D. Universals / 1. Universals

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Are genera and species real or conceptual? bodies or incorporeal? in sensibles or separate from them? [Porphyry]

26. Natural Theory / C. Causation / 3. Final causes

5059	Power rules in efficient causes, but wisdom rules in connecting them to final causes [Leibniz]