Colin McGinn on Infinity - Philosophy Lexicon of Arguments

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Infinity, infinite, philosophy: infinity is a result of a not stopping procedure, e.g. counting or dividing, or e.g. the continued description of a circular motion. In life-related contexts, infinitely continuous processes, e.g. infinite repetition, or never ending waiting are at least logically not contradictory. A construction rule does not have to exist to give an infinite continuation, such as e.g. in the development of the decimal places of real numbers. See also boundaries, infinity axiom, repetition, finitism, numbers, complex/complexity. _____________ Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments.

McGinn, Colin	Infinity	I 107 Infinity is applied from the outset in the intentionality. That’s just the wit of meaning. The meaning allows us access to places, times and distances, the body and the senses don’t have. _____________ Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution.	McG I C. McGinn Die Grenzen vernünftigen Fragens Stuttgart 1996 McG II C. McGinn Wie kommt der Geist in die Materie? München 2001

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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2018-06-25