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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 2, 2019 at 10:08 am
Those guys have caused endless arguments...
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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 3, 2019 at 12:10 pm
I had hoped that Polymath would have responded here, but it appears that he is gone?
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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 4, 2019 at 4:49 pm
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Interesting. Never heard of it before.
I'd say that rejecting infinite mathematical objects is pointless. In Math everything goes as long as it satisfies certain set of pre-defined rules. Mathematical objects can be purely abstract.
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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 4, 2019 at 5:43 pm
These are the people that add letters together, right?
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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 5, 2019 at 3:55 pm
"Imagine a number, any number ... now add +1". There, infinity explained. Any unbounded recursive function will go on forever.
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RE: Mathematicians who are finitists.
April 6, 2019 at 4:33 pm
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However, it's still unclear for me what is the principal difference between potential and actual infinity other than latter being, to put it simple, an 'end cap' of a set.