26/01/2012

A conclusion to my earlier thoughts on the notion of infinity, 


"Whatsoever we imagine is finite. Therefore there is no idea or conception of any thing we call infinite. No man can have in his mind an image of infinite magnitude nor conceive infinite swiftness, infinite time, or infinite force, or infinite power. When we say any thing is infinite, we signify only, that we are not able to conceive the ends, and bounds, of the things named; having no conception of the thing, but of our own inability.And therefore the name of God is used, not to make us conceive him; (for he is incomprehensible; and his greatness and power are inconceivable) but that we may honour him."


-Thomas Hobbes, "Leviathan", 1651

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