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From: David R Tribble on 2 Mar 2010 16:49
Archimedes Plutonium wrote:
> One cannot help but think how religion adversely affected mathematics
> with its misled conception of infinity as forever. Religion with its
> god/s and
> everlasting power, and its foreverness. So the moment human
> civilization
> cottons on to a supernatural, is the moment a misguided concept creeps
> into
> science and mathematics of the idea of "forever, nonstopping,
> everlasting,
> almighty, endless."

Actually, since before Aristotle's time and up to only the most
recent two or three centuries, most mathematicians could only
conceive of the "potentially" infinite, and rejected anything
"actually"
infinite.

You have adopted an even stricter conception of infinity than that,
i.e., that infinity does not exist in any form.
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