Georg Cantor on Ethics
Browse 2 quotations attributed to Georg Cantor, catalogued under Ethics, with dates where available.
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Attributed to Georg Cantor, entry #161447: "The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite …"
Attributed to Georg Cantor, entry #182624: "If there is some determinate succession of defined whole real numbers, among which there exists no greatest, on the basis of this second principle of generation a new number is ob…"
2 Quotes by Georg Cantor on Ethics
"The potential infinite means nothing other than an undetermined, variable quantity, always remaining finite, which has to assume values that either become smaller than any finite limit no matter how small, or greater than any finite limit no matter how great."
"If there is some determinate succession of defined whole real numbers, among which there exists no greatest, on the basis of this second principle of generation a new number is obtained which is regarded as the limit of those numbers, i.e. is defined as the next greater number than all of them."