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Synonyms for infinity

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Synonyms for infinity

the totality of time without beginning or end

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Synonyms for infinity

time without end

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Chafing and regularized, they miss the sense of potential infinity open, say, to the grid, with its horizontal or vertical push.
Craig Kauffman
Mathematicians today refer to actual infinity as an uncountable set of numbers such as the number of points existing on a line at the same time, while a potential infinity is an endless sequence that unfolds consecutively over time.
Idea of infinity stretched back to third century B.C
In particular, he accuses them of violating Cantor's principle that for every potential infinity there is a corresponding actual infinity, a principle which he defends as a precondition for the meaningfulness of thought about the infinite.
Beyond the Limits of Thought
By contrast, it is often stressed that the mathematical sense of infinity in Aristotle or his inquiry about matter can only lead to the concept of a merely potential infinity. Greek infinity would then be a potentiality that excludes the possibility of actuality.
The actual infinite as a day or the games
Is potential infinity of parts and infinity of potential parts?
Oxford Physics in the Thirteenth Century (ca. 1250-1270): Motion, Infinity, Place, and Time
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