265. Quantity made up of impressions, and there must be a least possible impression.
266. Yet it is admitted that there is an idea of number not made up of impressions. A finite division into impressions no more possible than an infinite one.
267. In Hume’s instances it is not really a feeling, but a conceived thing, that appears as finitely divisible.
268. Upon true notion of quantity infinite divisibility follows of course.
269. What are the ultimate elements of extension? If not extended, what are they?
270. Colours or coloured points? What is the difference?
271. True way of dealing with the question.
272. ‘If the point were divisible, it would be no termination of a line.’ Answer to this.
273. What becomes of the exactness of mathematics according to Hume?
274. The universal propositions of geometry either untrue or unmeaning.