Assertion: infinitesimal | /r/HasProperty | invisible
Facets:
value: to perception
type: OTHER
Source sentences:
text: As this objection was ignored by Newton and Leibniz, calculus only made things worse; and subsequent British philosophers, like George Berkeley and David Hume, not only could repeat the earlier logical objection, but, as Empiricists, they could add their own epistemological objection, that as infinitesimals would be invisible to perception, they could not be a matter of empirical, and so any, knowledge.