Questions tagged [infinite]
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Do all epistemologies suffer from the "regress of justifications" problem?
Aristotle describes the regress problem in his logical work Posterior Analytics I.2:
b5. Some hold that, owing to the necessity of knowing the primary premisses, there is no scientific knowledge. ...
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Are there more numbers than numerals?
If the universe is finite and numbers are infinite, would that mean that there are more numbers than numerals to name them?
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Arguments against eternal return
I have encountered the concept of eternal return e.g. in reading about Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 – 1900) and Pythagoras (c. 570 – c. 495 BC). This is one formulation from Nietzsche's The Will To Power:...
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Is an infinity of possibilities is not possible when God is involved?
Within an infinity of possibilities there is a possibility that God exists in all possibilities just as much as there is a possibility that God exists in none of them. This leads to a contradiction. ...
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How can one determine, and justify, that something is infinite?
Can infinite things be measured and known?
Imagine you stood on a long rope, and in the distance, you see that the rope continues past your vision. The further you walk on it, the more rope seems to ...
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Mildly interesting: is the number of objects in the universe at any given time finite? [closed]
My guess is yes. Here's my reasoning.
There are a finite number of atoms in the universe (the current estimate is about 10^80). In other words, the set of all atoms in the (observable) universe is a ...
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Could there ever be evidence for an infinite being?
The God of Anselm is understood as "that than which nothing greater can be conceived." From this definition, God can be presumed to be omnipotent, omniscient, omnipresent, perfectly free, uncaused, ...
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Actual infinite vs. Potential infinite [closed]
I'm looking for bibliography about the problem of Actual infinite vs. Potential infinite. I would appreciate information about papers or books treating this problem deeply, philosophical and ...
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Is an infinite regress good logic?
I have come across claims that first causes are not needed we can always have an infinite regress. Is this good logic is what I'm wondering. If the universe has an beginning should we believe that ...
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