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Approaching Infinity addresses seventeen paradoxes of the infinite, most of which have no generally accepted solutions. The book addresses these paradoxes using a new theory of infinity, which entails that an infinite series is uncompletable when it requires something to possess an infinite intensive magnitude. Along the way, the author addresses the nature of numbers, sets, geometric points, and related matters.
The book addresses the need for a theory of infinity, and reviews both old and new theories of infinity. It discussing the purposes of studying infinity and the troubles with traditional approaches to the problem, and concludes by offering a solution to some existing paradoxes.
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Preface
PART I: THE NEED FOR A THEORY OF INFINITY
1. The Prevalence of the Infinite
1.1. The Concept of Infinity and the Infinite
1.2. The Infinite in Mathematics
1.3. The Infinite in Philosophy
1.4. The Infinite in the Physical World
1.5. The Infinite in Modern Physics
1.6. Controversies
2. Six Infinite Regresses
2.1. The Regress of Causes
2.2. The Regress of Reasons
2.3. The Regress of Forms
2.4. The Regress of Resemblances
2.5. The Regress of Temporal Series
2.6. The Regress of Truths
2.7. Conclusion
3. Seventeen Paradoxes of the Infinite
3.1. A Word about Paradoxes
3.2. The Arithmetic of Infinity
3.3. The Paradox of Geometric Points
3.4. Infinite Sums
3.5. Galileo?s Paradox
3.6. Hilbert?s Hotel
3.7. Gabriel?s Horn
3.8. Smullyan?s Infinite Rod
3.9. Zeno?s Paradox
3.10. The Divided Stick
3.11. Thomson?s Lamp
3.12. The Littlewood-Ross Banker
3.13. Benardete?s Paradox
3.14. Laraudogoitia?s Marbles
3.15. The Spaceship
3.16. The Saint Petersburg Paradox
3.17. The Martingale Betting System
3.18. The Delayed Heaven Paradox
3.19. Conclusion
PART II: OLD THEORIES OF INFINITY
4. Impossible Infinite Series: Two False Accounts
4.1. ?An Infinite Series Cannot Be Completed by Successive Synthesis?
4.2. ?An Infinite Series of Preconditions Cannot Be Satisfied?
4.3. Conclusion
5. Actual and Potential Infinities
5.1. The Theory of Potential Infinity
5.2. Why Not Actual Infinities?
5.3. Infinite Divisibility
5.4. Infinite Time
5.5. Infinite Space
5.6. Infinitely Numerous Numbers
5.7. Infinitely Numerous Abstract Objects
5.8. Infinitely Numerous Physical Objects
5.9. Conclusion
6. The Cantorian Orthodoxy
6.1. The Importance of Georg Cantor
6.2. Sets
6.3. Cardinal Numbers
6.4. ?Greater?, ?Less?, and ?Equal?
6.5. Many Sets Are Equally Numerous
6.6. The Diagonalization Argument
6.7. Cantor?s Theorem
6.8. The Paradoxes of Set Theory
6.9. Other Paradoxes of Infinity
6.10. Conclusion
PART III: A NEW THEORY OF INFINITY AND RELATED MATTERS
7. Philosophical Preliminaries
7.1. Metapreliminaries
7.2. Phenomenal Conservatism
7.3. Synthetic A Priori Knowledge
7.4. Metaphysical Possibility
7.5. Possibility and Paradox
7.6. A Realist View of Mathematics
8. Sets
8.1. Sets Are Not Collections
8.2. Sets Are Not Defined by the Axioms
8.3. Many Regarded as One: The Foundational Sin?
8.4. The Significance of the Paradoxes
8.5. Are Numbers Sets?
8.6. Set Theory and the Laws of Arithmetic
9. Numbers
9.1. Cardinal Numbers as Properties
9.2. Frege?s Objection
9.3. Arithmetical Operations
9.4. The Laws of Arithmetic
9.5. Zero
9.6. A Digression on Large Numbers
9.7. Magnitudes and Real Numbers
9.8. Indexing Uses of Numbers
9.9. Other Numbers
10. Infinity
10.1. Infinity Is Not a Number
10.2. Infinite Cardinalities
10.3. Infinite Extensive Magnitudes
10.4. Infinite Intensive Magnitudes
10.5. Some A Priori Physics
11. Space
11.1. Pointy Space Versus Gunky Space
11.2. The Unimaginability of Points
11.3. The Zero Argument
11.4. When Zero Is Not Mere Absence
11.5. The Paradox of Contact
11.6. The Problem of Division
11.7. The Dimensionality of Space Is Necessary
11.8. The Measure-Theoretic Objection
12. Some Paradoxes Mostly Resolved
12.1. The Arithmetic of Infinity
12.2. The Paradox of Geometric Points
12.3. Infinite Sums
12.4. Galileo?s Paradox
12.5. Hilbert?s Hotel
12.6. Gabriel?s Horn
12.7. Smullyan?s Infinite Rod
12.8. Zeno?s Paradox
12.9. The Divided Stick
12.10. Thomson?s Lamp
12.11. The Littlewood-Ross Banke
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