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The Great Open Dance

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11. Cantor again!

Reply to Fortinbras Armstrong (Reply #9)

Mon Jan 20, 2025, 02:24 PM

Jan 2025

The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.
As quoted in Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (1988) by Rudy Rucker. ~ ISBN 0395468108

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