Actual Infinities

[jenny1972]

Chad, I'm finding words to be in short supply at the moment, so hopefully this makes some sense but... what about the possibility that universals are but a linguistic sleight of hand, and that what we in fact conceptualize as applying to all of an object's so-called class are merely abstract particulars. So, there is no universal "red" or "man" that we all understand in exactly the same way, but - say, in the case of man - only those bits and fragments which we gain from experience and then combine to render the form of a particular man, though generically represented, perhaps using our first or "most lively" impressions as an archetype, and that this is rendered differently from person to person. So when we speak of "red", we both understand the idea, but each of us is limited to the particular shade or shades we have gained from our private experience. Then again, there are classifications - such as necessity, contingency, possibility, impossibility - and quantity, as in numbers, which don't seem at all subject to variance from one's conception to another, but rather refer to objective facts of reality, though not in any physical sense... So I don't know what those are supposed to signify in reality if truth or what can be said to "actually exist" is understood as a proposition, or set of propositions, that correspond(s) to an object or objects that either was/were, is/are, or will be.

have you considered the idea that an intelligent being might exist somewhere within all that mystery and why do you assume that God must be infinite to exist , because religious people claim that God is infinite and had no beginning is that why ?