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Infinity
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1. Metaphysics
1.1. Concept and prior historyThe term “infinity” (French
infinité; German
Unendlichkeit) is often used figuratively (metaphorically) to denote very large or unknown values (“infinite depths of the ocean”), so that its literal use has faded into the background. “The infinite” (Latin
infinitum, Greek
ápeiron, “the boundless”, “the indeterminate”) in the strict sense, however, has since the first days of Greek philosophy been a precise term in both mathematics and metaphysics contrasted with the “finite.” What was often unc…
Date:
2019-10-14
