Autor: Flanagan, Josef

Buch: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Titel: Quest for Self-Knowledge

Stichwort: Materie, endlose Zahlenreihe

Kurzinhalt: Die Ursache der Imagination des Unendlichen liegt in der "Hypostasierung" der materia; nicht die materia ist die Form, sondern die Zahl

Textausschnitt: To understand 'infinitely' is to understand everything about everything. Let us take the example of the ordinary number series, 1, 2, 3, 4, etc. Since the series can continue indefinitely, you may assume that 'infinity' is a number that belongs to this series. But the form of such a series is a series of terms generated by adding to any number the unit one (n + 1). This is a very limited form of operating. What is endless or infinite is the matter or numerical possibilities that can be extended continuously by the operation of adding.