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244 This suggests a negative argument for Kant's antinomies, and for Hamilton's law of the conditioned.
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245 Newton became Sir Isaac on April 16, 1705. Was this written before that date?
246 These may be _considered_ separately, but not _pictured_ as such.
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247 In as far as they have not been sensibly realised in finite percipient mind.
248 [Or rather that invisible length does exist.]-AUTHOR, on margin.
249 Bonaventura Cavalieri (1598-1647), the Italian mathematician. His _Geometry of Indivisibles_ (1635) prepared the way for the Calculus.
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250 [By ”the excuse” is meant the finiteness of our mind-making it possible for contradictions to appear true to us.]-AUTHOR, on margin.
251 He allows elsewhere that words with meanings not realisable in imagination, i.e. in the form of idea, may discharge a useful office. See _Principles_, Introduction, sect. 20.
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252 We do not perceive unperceived matter, but only matter realised in living perception-the percipient act being the factor of its reality.
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253 The secondary qualities of things.
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254 Because, while dependent on percipient sense, they are independent of _my_ personal will, being determined to appear under natural law, by Divine agency.
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255 Keill's _Introductio ad veram Physicam_ (Oxon. 1702)-Lectio 5-a curious work, dedicated to the Earl of Pembroke.
256 [Extension without breadth-i. e. insensible, intangible length-is not conceivable. 'Tis a mistake we are led into by the doctrine of abstraction.]-AUTHOR, on margin of MS.