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Logic Oct 28
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motion, but were partly due to neither analyzing rightly the idea
of continuity, and partly their still grosser inability to see that an endless
series of terms might be followed by a next term.

1908 Oct 29

I shall herein, I trust, lead you to understand clearly infinite series
and infinite multitudes, as well as continua. But it is not yet time
for that: matters must be considered in due order. Yet in advance
of that, we shall soon see whether or not Herbart and Hegel
can be in the right. It is plain that if they only mean that
their idea of motion is a self-contradictory idea, their contention
is not very important. For if it be true, it only shows that
their idea of motion is only an idea of Nothing. If, however,
they mean that a reasonable true idea of motion is an idea of
Nothing, as it must be it is self-contradictory, then we shall