To: PatrickHenry
ccording to a controversial new mathematical mode1. Infinite series exist in mathematics and in the imagination, but they don't exist in actuality. An actual series must be finite. It cannot be infinite.
12 posted on
03/28/2004 5:43:20 AM PST by
Aquinasfan
(Isaiah 22:22, Rev 3:7, Mat 16:19)
To: Aquinasfan
You know, eternity is a long time, especially near the end.
35 posted on
03/28/2004 7:09:47 AM PST by
JusPasenThru
(If you only hate Republicans and Christians, you still hate.)
To: Aquinasfan
Infinite series exist in mathematics and in the imagination, but they don't exist in actuality. An actual series must be finite. It cannot be infinite But, the argument went, if this "actual existence" is finite, something else must be anterior any series of motions. That's Aristotle, at least.
55 posted on
03/28/2004 11:45:55 AM PST by
cornelis
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