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W. Poundstone - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
W. Poundstone (1955), American author and science journalist. His major works include Prisoner's Dilemma: John von Neumann, Game Theory, and the Puzzle of the Bomb (1992), The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge (1985), and Labyrinths of Reason: Paradox, Puzzles, and the Search for Truth (1988). His fields of specialization are mathematics, physics, psychology, economics, and science journalism.
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Infinity, infinite, philosophy: the result of a procedure that never ends, e.g. counting or dividing, or e.g. the continued description of a circular motion. In lifeworld contexts, infinitely continued processes such as infinite repetition or never-ending waiting are at least not logically contradictory. A formation rule does not have to exist for an infinite continuation to occur, as is the case, for example, with the development of the decimal places of real numbers. See also limits, infinity axiom, repetition, finitism, numbers, complex/complexity._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Barrow, John D. | Infinity | Barrow | |
Cantor, Georg | Infinity | Cantor | |
Field, Hartry | Infinity | Field | |
Foucault, Michel | Infinity | Foucault | |
Geach, Peter | Infinity | Geach | |
Hegel, G.W.F. | Infinity | Hegel | |
Kant, Immanuel | Infinity | Kant | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Infinity | Leibniz | |
Logic Texts | Infinity | Logic Texts | |
Lorenzen, Paul | Infinity | Lorenzen | |
McGinn, Colin | Infinity | McGinn | |
Nozick, Robert | Infinity | Nozick | |
Poundstone, W. | Infinity | Poundstone | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Infinity | Quine | |
Russell, Bertrand | Infinity | Russell | |
Thiel, Christian | Infinity | Thiel | |
Tugendhat, E. | Infinity | Tugendhat | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Infinity | Wittgenstein | |
Zeno | Infinity | Zeno | |
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