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Infinity in the Presocratics
Leo Sweeney
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Paperback. Num Pages: 255 pages, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 470.
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. ... Read more
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. ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1972
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Number of pages
255
Condition
New
Number of Pages
255
Place of Publication
Dordrecht, Netherlands
ISBN
9789024711703
SKU
V9789024711703
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