"actual" in inglés with examples - Collocation dictionary inglés
- The second principle is Aristotle's principle that an actual infinity is impossible.
- An actual infinity is impossible, he reasons, because infinity is a potential value that cannot be reached.
- Likewise, time itself, whether measured by minutes or millennia, cannot comprise an actual infinity.
- On the one hand, it would seem God cannot be infinite either since an actual infinity is impossible.
- He distinguished between actual infinity and potential infinity-the general consensus being that only the latter had true value.
- Hence our conclusion differed from that given above; for we inferred in the antithesis the actual infinity of the world.
- He distinguished between actual and potential infinity.
- During the Renaissance and by early modern times the voices in favor of actual infinity were rather rare.
- Cantor's views prevailed and modern mathematics accepts actual infinity.
- Craig also develops an a posteriori argument against actual infinities which rests on the A-theory of time.
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