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HoP 165 - Neither the Time Nor the Place - Hasdai Crescas

History of Philosophy Without Any Gaps

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The Infinite Line on the Infinitive Disk

Kreskis: If the distance between two lines can get smaller and smaller forever without ever going to zero, then likewise the line's length can get bigger and bigger forever while remaining limited at any given point. He adds several more points of his own that revert age-old assumptions about infinity. For instance, he states that a line, bounded in one direction and infinite in the other, is no smaller than a line that is infinite in both directions.

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