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• Blaise Pascal

  French mathematician, physicist, religious thinker, and writer (19 June 1623 – 19 August 1662). Author of the Pensées (posthumous; compositional fragments 1657–62), the Provincial Letters (1656–57), De l'esprit géométrique (c. 1657), works…

• Galileo Galilei

  Italian physicist, astronomer, and mathematician (1564–1642). In this wiki Galileo appears almost entirely through Husserl's Crisis §9, where he is the protagonist of the mathematization of nature — and the emblem of Husserl's most influen…

• Ideal Objectivity (The Origin of Geometry)

  The concept worked out in "The Origin of Geometry" (Crisis Appendix VI — the text Derrida famously introduced): an ideal objectivity is a spiritual product, such as the Pythagorean theorem, that "exists only once," is omnitemporally the sa…

• Mathematization of Nature

  The operation, analysed in the Crisis §9 (Husserl's single most influential section), by which Galileo reinterprets nature as a mathematical manifold — and, in doing so, surreptitiously substitutes a mathematically idealized world for the…

• Pure Logic

  Husserl's positive Idea in the Prolegomena (husserl-1900-logical-investigations-vol1): logic as a purely theoretical, a priori, "internally closed" science — the theory of science (Wissenschaftslehre, Bolzano's term), in the limit the theo…

• The Divided Line

  The second of the Republic's three images of the Good (509d–511e): a line cut into two unequal parts (visible / intelligible), each cut again "in the same ratio," yielding four segments that track degrees of truth and being matched to four…