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Comment by dilippkumar

I haven't studied math beyond what was needed for my engineering courses.

However, I also am starting to believe that infinity doesn't exist.

Or more specifically, I want to argue that infinity is not a number, it is a process. When you say {1, 2, 3, ... } the "..." represents a process of extending the set without a halting condition.

There is no infinity at the end of a number line. There is a process that says how to extend that number line ever further.

There is no infinity'th prime number. There is a process by which you can show that a bigger primer number must always exist.

parent dilippkumar 11 months ago

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