How are Concepts of Infinity Acquired?

Kazimierz Trzęsicki

doi:10.1515/slgr-2015-0010

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How are Concepts of Infinity Acquired?

Studies in Logic, Grammar and Rhetoric

Volume 40 (2015): Issue 1 (March 2015)

By: Kazimierz Trzęsicki

Open Access

|Apr 2015

Abstract

Concepts of infinity have been subjects of dispute since antiquity. The main problems of this paper are: is the mind able to acquire a concept of infinity? and: how are concepts of infinity acquired? The aim of this paper is neither to say what the meanings of the word “infinity” are nor what infinity is and whether it exists. However, those questions will be mentioned, but only in necessary extent.

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