Re: Does a potential infinity actually exist?

On Aug 23, 4:04 pm, david petry <david_lawrence_pe...@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
On Aug 23, 9:39 am, aatu.koskensi...@xxxxxxxxx wrote:

MoeBlee wrote:
If you would either give 'potential infinity' as a primitive and
axioms with it or 'potential infinity' defined from primitives, then
there might be something of specific mathematical interest there.

It would appear that Moeblee didn't understand anything I wrote. I'm
arguing that when we acknowledge that infinity only has a potential
existence, then we see that infinity is merely a figure of speech, and
anything that can be said using the word "infinity" could also be said
without it. The best I could do is present rules for transforming
sentences using "infinity" into sentences not using it, but the
example I gave in the article gives the main idea.

I addressed what you said specifically and in fair detail. Your not
responding to what I said but instead just saying that I don't
understand what you said is purely a rhetorical ploy by you.

MoeBlee

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