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Infinity

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Oct 4, 2026

Hugh McGuireNARRATOR
118:10
Therefore, the individuals in antiquity were freer because their aims were nearer and more tangible.
Hugh McGuireNARRATOR
118:18
Modern man, on the contrary, is everywhere hampered by infinity, like the fleet-footed Achilles in the allegory of the Iliad Zeno.
Hugh McGuireNARRATOR
118:29
Infinity impedes him.
Hugh McGuireNARRATOR
118:31
He does not even overtake the tortoise.
Hugh McGuireNARRATOR
118:34
But as the youths to be educated were brought up struggling against one another, so their educators were in turn in emulation amongst themselves.
Tim PalmerGUEST
11:42
And a continuum is just one over, and, you know, it's an infinitesimal, it's one over infinity, so it's...
Tim PalmerGUEST
11:47
You're, you're still cr- you know, you're still...
Tim PalmerGUEST
11:49
Infinity is, is getting in there by the back door.
Tim PalmerGUEST
11:53
So I...
Tim PalmerGUEST
11:53
So the rational quantum mechanics was, um- You know, I formulated it to, to really try to make sense of Bell's...
Steve CrossHOST
15:55
you not having finished your thesis thanks steve thanks steve
Christabel CaneHOST
15:58
Infinity does give birth to all of the other things, but that's still kind of like weird and messy and shameful in the ancient Greek conception.
Christabel CaneHOST
16:08
Remember that the virtue ethicists prize order and temperance.
Christabel CaneHOST
16:11
The best virtue is temperance.
Steve CrossHOST
16:13
Infinity is not temperance.
Steve CrossHOST
16:14
It's not temperance, is it? You can't come up with any system where that's in the middle of two axes.
Steve CrossHOST
16:18
By definition, it's always going to be far over on one end.

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Our Knowledge of the External World As a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy-Bertrand Russell

Sep 20 · 2 Mentions

Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
331:19
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
331:22
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Landon D.C. Alkind at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa The Problem of Infinity Considered Historically It will be remembered that, when we enumerated the grounds upon which the reality of the sensible world has been questioned, one of those mentioned was the supposed impossibility of infinity and continuity.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
331:53
In view of our earlier discussion of physics, it would seem that no conclusive empirical evidence exists in favor of infinity or continuity in objects of sense or in matter.
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Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
401:07
End of Lecture 6 Lecture 7 of Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy by Bertrand Russell This is a LibriVox recording.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
401:31
All LibriVox recordings are in the public domain.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
401:34
For more information or to volunteer, please visit LibriVox.org. Recording by Landon D.C. Elkind at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa The Positive Theory of Infinity The positive theory of infinity and the general theory of number to which it has given rise are among the triumphs of scientific method in philosophy, and are therefore specially suitable for illustrating the logical analytic character of that method.
Landon D. C. ElkindNARRATOR
402:07
The work in this subject has been done by mathematicians, and its results can be expressed in mathematical symbolism.

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Mind Webs - The Brink Of Infinity

Sep 19 · 4 Mentions

Michael HansonHOST
2:45
This time with a Stanley Weinbaum story, copyright 1936 by Better Publications Incorporated.
Michael HansonHOST
2:52
Entitled, The Brink of Infinity.
Michael HansonHOST
2:58
One would hardly choose the life of an assistant professor of mathematics at an eastern university as an adventurous one.
Michael HansonHOST
3:04
Professors in general are reputed to drone out a quiet scholarly existence.

27 MINS LATER

Michael HansonHOST
29:51
There weren't any other possibilities.
Michael HansonHOST
29:53
I'd exhausted all of them in hour after hour of miserable conjecture.
Michael HansonHOST
29:57
So I asked, Is the expression the one you're thinking of? Infinity minus infinity? It was.
Michael HansonHOST
30:06
I knew by the madman's glare of amazed disappointment.

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Philosophy and Fun of Algebra-Mary Everest Boole

Sep 18 · 4 Mentions

Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
106:44
Chapter sixteen.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
106:45
Infinity.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
106:48
You remember the angel who looks like this, square root of minus one.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
106:53
Now I am going to introduce you to another angel.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
109:48
Suppose no cake is given to the children.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
109:52
How many can pass through the room before it is all eaten up? The answer to that is an infinite number.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
110:01
Infinity does not mean any particular number, or a very large number.
Patricia OakleyNARRATOR
110:07
It means a loosened chain, a discarded hypothesis, escape from the rule we were working under.
石田HOST
10:29
そうですよね。効果が出たとしても、やっぱ同じ行動というかね、同じエクササイズでば飽きてしまいますもんね。
矢野耕二GUEST
10:35
そうです、そうです。で、それで例えば股関節一つに対してのエクササイズにしても、やっぱりこう、バリエーションをいくつ持てるかっていうところがすごく大事で、そのバリエーションを持たせるところの助けになるのが、例えば器具であったりだとか、あの、負荷とかであったりするので、そういった掛け合わせをやっていくと無限大だし、あと道具だけじゃなくて楽しさの要素を入れるだとか、そういった工夫っていうのは、同じ股関節のエクササイズとかにしたとしてもすごく大事じゃないかなと思います。
石田HOST
11:13
なるほど。実際にプログラムを監修、監修って言い方おかしいですね。プログラムを管理してるのは矢野さんと、あとスタッフの方と一緒に管理されてる感じなんですかね。
矢野耕二GUEST
11:25
基本的にはあの、やったこととかはみんなで共有するようにしているので、そこを、あの、まあ指名のお客さんがいればずっと担当が同じにつく場合もあるんですけど、指名じゃない場合もあるので、常に何をやったかとか、そういったログっていうのは残しているので。あとはまあ、これどういう目的でやったのとかは常に聞くようにしましょうねっていうことで、内部では一応話はしてますけど。
Jesse YoderGUEST
27:13
Just take that and put it in your fiction book.
Jesse YoderGUEST
27:16
Infinity is a mathematical fiction, and by the rope experiment, I can prove basically that the circumference of a circle is rational.
Jesse YoderGUEST
27:28
We can measure it.
Jesse YoderGUEST
27:29
We start by specifying the unit of measurement.
StanoHOST
17:01
Yeah, everyone's doing learning stuff.
StanoHOST
17:02
So why don't you tell me about your first Infinity game?
RyanHOST
17:06
Sure thing.
RyanHOST
17:06
So the first game of the day was Against, and I...
RyanHOST
17:11
Don't recall ever actually getting his proper name.
RyanHOST
17:14
So I will just use the D or the Discord handle.
RyanHOST
17:17
So I gave Zion his third game of Infinity, still kind of working through mechanics and orb operations and going through just how the game changes and stuff.
RyanHOST
17:32
He decided after two games that Ariadne was not his speed and So I let him use the Pan-O models I had, and I just used a dumb Drew's list I had laying around.

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