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To: cornelis

I don't view the finite and the infinite as a basic division of nature, but merely a thought construct. The finite we can handle in our logic. The logic of the infinite seems to involve abstraction, that is, removing all content from the form.


651 posted on 12/13/2005 11:44:58 AM PST by RightWhale (Not transferable -- Good only for this trip)
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To: RightWhale
I don't view the finite and the infinite as a basic division of nature

No, I don't either, especially not before we distinguish among several kinds of infinities. But this pushes us to the long-standing distinction between ens rationis and ens reale

I won't commit the fallacy in any ontological argument which jumps from our concepts to reality. This is the very mistake that scientism and theological dogmatism makes. Their A-is-A chant makes A stands for everything. But epistemology is only one aspect of the universe. Therefore all concepts are adequations.

659 posted on 12/13/2005 11:55:45 AM PST by cornelis
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