(February 15, 2018 at 12:14 pm)Neo-Scholastic Wrote: As another member noted - eternal and infinite are not synonymous. Eternal is a quality; infinite is a quantity. Eternal is the quality of something for which time has no meaning, like the Principle of Non-Contradiction. The PNC is universally true independent of time or even if there wasn't any time/space at all. Infinite describes the quantity of something, like the amount of patience it takes to read posts by Little Rik.
They're not synonymous, but not for the reason you stated.
Eternal means infinite time, not simply infinite.
Even if it's just one time slice or whatever, eternity can imply an infinite size of that time slice. Or an infinite passage or movement of that time slice.
