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Adrian Moore on Infinity

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The Infinite and the Finite

Anything that's finite can be contrasted with something else. A collection of objects or a set of objects is infinite when this sort of paradox arises. But what mathematicians do is rather than be freaked out by it, they put it to their advantage and clarify the infinite. From a psychological point of view though I mean if you're talking about an infinite set we have just done that.

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