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  2. Actual infinity - Wikipedia

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    Actual infinity is completed and definite, and consists of infinitely many elements. Potential infinity is never complete: elements can be always added, but never infinitely many. "For generally the infinite has this mode of existence: one thing is always being taken after another, and each thing that is taken is always finite, but always ...

  3. Controversy over Cantor's theory - Wikipedia

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    Before Cantor, the notion of infinity was often taken as a useful abstraction which helped mathematicians reason about the finite world; for example the use of infinite limit cases in calculus. The infinite was deemed to have at most a potential existence, rather than an actual existence. [16] "Actual infinity does not exist.

  4. Galileo's paradox - Wikipedia

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    The relevant section of Two New Sciences is excerpted below: [2]. Simplicio: Here a difficulty presents itself which appears to me insoluble.Since it is clear that we may have one line greater than another, each containing an infinite number of points, we are forced to admit that, within one and the same class, we may have something greater than infinity, because the infinity of points in the ...

  5. Infinity (philosophy) - Wikipedia

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    In philosophy and theology, infinity is explored in articles under headings such as the Absolute, God, and Zeno's paradoxes. In Greek philosophy, for example in Anaximander, 'the Boundless' is the origin of all that is.

  6. Kalam cosmological argument - Wikipedia

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    The origins of the cosmological argument can be traced to classical antiquity, rooted in the concept of the prime mover, introduced by Aristotle.In the 6th century, Syriac Christian theologian John Philoponus (c. 490–c. 570) proposed the first known version of the argument based on the impossibility of an infinite temporal regress, postulating that time itself must have had a beginning.

  7. Absolute infinite - Wikipedia

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    Cantor said: The actual infinite was distinguished by three relations: first, as it is realized in the supreme perfection, in the completely independent, extra worldly existence, in Deo, where I call it absolute infinite or simply absolute; second to the extent that it is represented in the dependent, creatural world; third as it can be conceived in abstracto in thought as a mathematical ...

  8. Euclid's theorem - Wikipedia

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    It will be shown that there exists at least one additional prime number not included in this list. Let P be the product of all the prime numbers in the list: P = p 1 p 2...p n. Let q = P + 1. Then q is either prime or not: If q is prime, then there is at least one more prime that is not in the list, namely, q itself.

  9. Cantor's first set theory article - Wikipedia

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    Since at most one x n can be in this interval, every y in this interval except x n (if it exists) is not in the given sequence. Case 2: a ∞ = b ∞ Case 2: a ∞ = b ∞. Then a ∞ is not in the sequence since for all n : a ∞ is in the interval (a n, b n) but x n does not belong to (a n, b n). In symbols: a ∞ ∈ (a n, b n) but x n ∉ ...