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Old 07-19-2007, 03:06 PM
oe39 oe39 is offline
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Default Re: Is this a paradox?

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In a discussion I recently had in a class that dealt with Zeno's paradox of infinity (or one of them, anyway) we seemed to discover something interesting. Or at least I did; perhaps others already knew it.

Anyway, this is what we found. Most people, including you the OP, fall into problems because they think of infinity as Being, in other words, as a unifiable concept. While what infinity really is, I would now argue, is Becoming. This makes sense: something that is infinite by definition has no end; and if there is no end, there is no smallest number.

Your friend said there isn't enough time to cite an infinite number of numbers. He's right and he's wrong. We will never have enough time because no amount of time would be enough. Infinity is a perpetual stretching, if you will.

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i don't understand what this has to do with the thread.
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