#14 — William Lane Craig | The Kalam Cosmological Argument
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The Difference Between an Actual and a Potential Infinite
The concept of the potential infinite dominated Western mathematics and philosophy until the 19th century. Georga Contour German mathematician discovered the concept of the actual infinite. The notion of the of a potential infinite plays its role in calculus where we think of infinity as a limit which a process approaches but never arrives at. And it is absolutely crucial to distinguish these because one is not denying that the potential infinite can exist. A denial is that there can be an actual infinite in the real world.
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