Infinity: An Essay in MetaphysicsClarendon Press, 1964 - 289 pagina's |
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... intelligible and meaningless to speak of an infinite number of stars , then it follows that we know a priori that a spaceship which is launched to explore the heavens must be at some precise finite time in the future ( travelling at a ...
... intelligible and meaningless to speak of an infinite number of stars , then it follows that we know a priori that a spaceship which is launched to explore the heavens must be at some precise finite time in the future ( travelling at a ...
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... intelligible apart from the other . Consider the following case . We are confronting a wall that extends far beyond our field of vision both to the right and to the left . We raise the question , does the wall come to an end or does it ...
... intelligible apart from the other . Consider the following case . We are confronting a wall that extends far beyond our field of vision both to the right and to the left . We raise the question , does the wall come to an end or does it ...
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... intelligible possibility , then its logical opposite , a finite universe , must be equally intelligible ; and yet neither of the two would seem to allow of any empirical employment for the concepts finite and infinite . We may say that ...
... intelligible possibility , then its logical opposite , a finite universe , must be equally intelligible ; and yet neither of the two would seem to allow of any empirical employment for the concepts finite and infinite . We may say that ...
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INFINITY | 1 |
HYPERMATHEMATICS | 72 |
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