Concept

Actual and potential infinity

Overview

concept of infinite entities as given, actual and completed objects rather than non-terminating processes

Overview adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0; see the article history for authors).

Related ideas

• Formal language
• Anaximander
• Georg Cantor
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Infinite set
• Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory
• Foundations of mathematics
• Proof theory
• Mathematics
• Intuitionism
• Model theory
• Infinity
• Real number
• Natural number
• Nature
• Plato
• Richard Dedekind
• Pantheism
• Axiom of infinity
• Limit (mathematics)
• Set theory
• Pythagoreanism
• Galileo Galilei
• Abstraction

Opposing perspectives

• Apeiron

Place in the tradition

Part of Fallibilism.

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