Questions tagged [infinity]
Use for questions about the properties, nature, or definition of infinitude.
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If God is infinite and unchangeable how is there room for the universe? [closed]
If God is infinite and God cannot change, how is there room for the universe?, how could the universe come into existence?
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By "room" or "space" I did not necessarily mean ...
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Can the AC-DC argument against infinitism be defused?
Infinitism is the epistemic theory that claims that justification is only achieved by an infinite chain of non-repeating reasons.
At first, this feels like the "troll" theory of epistemic ...
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What philosophy of mathematics denies the existence of uncountable sets?
Finitism denies the existence of infinite mathematical objects (e.g. quantification over infinite domains is not considered meaningful). Is the position that denies the existence of uncountable sets (...
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Is there a way to prove we live in a universe of infinite or finite “things”?
Sometimes I wonder if science has limits. On one hand; logically no; there will always be something that we don’t understand and when we create new things it leads to other new things. On the other ...
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Isn’t the impossibility of an actual infinite in time almost by definition?
I have seen many philosophers argue that it is not contradictory to suppose that an actual infinite can exist.
But infinite in the future or past means never ending. If it never ends, it never ...
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Does absolute eternality entail timelessness?
Assuming one is committed to the idea that an actual infinite amount of time can never pass, does eternality entail timelessness?
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How to understand the notion of majority when comparing infinite sets?
Suppose I make the argument:
It is very unlikely that in a naturalistic universe, the constants have life sustaining values, since the majority of metaphysically possible universes do not have such ...
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Should proofs of God involve the infinitary language ℒ(∞,∞)?
If God is an infinite being (per Scotus, say), and if no finite number of steps in an argument is adequate to the scope of the divine majesty, then the strictures of monadic theism aside (God as a ...
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Probabilities and Certainties on the Monkey Axis: Yet more about those monkey typists
I was reading with some interest the answers and comments to this question about that familiar, weird and somewhat inhumane infinite-monkey experiment which, somehow, is still generating fresh and ...
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Why would infinite monkeys not produce the works of Shakespeare?
Apologies if this is a very basic/obvious question. I have no training in philosophy, but have been making my way through Peter Adamson's History of Philosophy podcast.
Recently I listened to his ...
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If the finite-indefinite-infinite distinction is not exhaustive, does this affect Kant's resolution of the antinomies?
From the modern point of view, infinity comes not only in various flavors (some of which Kant seems to have been aware of), but various sizes. So when Kant talks about conceptions as being too small ...
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Understanding Aristotle's argument of simultaneously and sequentially actualisable potential infinities in response to Atomism
I am reading a book about Aristotle. Aristotle lays out a potential argument against infinite divisibility by the Atomists, that infinite division would leave components of zero-magnitude which could ...
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Does philosophy, based on Archimedean solids, permit an infinite-face prism projecting a fifth dimension of infinite realities from a third dimension?
To quote the MIT work on the Hypershere: 'Considering that the largest Archimedean solid, the hyper truncated icosahedron, has over 14,000 faces, this object alone could contain within it an entire ...
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Do I exist under the aspect of eternity?
Do I exist under the aspect of eternity?
The work of art is the object seen sub specie aeternitatis; and the
good life is the world seen sub specie aeternitatis.
Wittgenstein on the unity of ethics ...
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How should eternity affect the plausibility of an agent’s existence?
Suppose the concept of God wasn’t eternal. There was some mechanism, perhaps even simpler than God, that gave rise to His existence. Is this more or less plausible than Him eternally existing?
What ...
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