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Infinity in the Presocratics - A Bibliographical and Philosophical Study (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1972)
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Infinity in the Presocratics - A Bibliographical and Philosophical Study (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1972)
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Throughout the long centuries of western metaphysics the problem of
the infinite has kept surfacing in different but important ways. It
had confronted Greek philosophical speculation from earliest times.
It appeared in the definition of the divine attributed to Thales in
Diogenes Laertius (I, 36) under the description "that which has
neither beginning nor end. " It was presented on the scroll of
Anaximander with enough precision to allow doxographers to transmit
it in the technical terminology of the unlimited (apeiron) and the
indeterminate (aoriston). The respective quanti tative and
qualitative implications of these terms could hardly avoid causing
trouble. The formation of the words, moreover, was clearly negative
or privative in bearing. Yet in the philosophical framework the
notion in its earliest use meant something highly positive,
signifying fruitful content for the first principle of all the
things that have positive status in the universe. These tensions
could not help but make themselves felt through the course of later
Greek thought. In one extreme the notion of the infinite was
refined in a way that left it appropriated to the Aristotelian
category of quantity. In Aristotle (Phys. III 6-8) it came to
appear as essentially re quiring imperfection and lack. It meant
the capacity for never-ending increase. It was always potential,
never completely actualized."
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