"The wonder in your mind is an infinity — anything can happen. Philosophy honors you when you claim your infinity, your meditation over life's greatest questions. But in this infinity something may crystallize itself -- and speak with finiteness. This, too, we must learn about. We must not deny the finite. But what we learn about the finite cannot always be applied to the infinite, and what we learn about the infinite cannot always be applied to the finite.
You are no stranger to the infinite if you have feelings about the universe as a whole — they draw from an infinite reservoir inside you, a sense of cosmos. But you may also want to find your way through the city to a certain street and street number: in a finite structure, you need to navigate by means of a knowing of finiteness. Sometimes our feelings and thinkings are infinite-connected, sometimes they are finite-connected.
How clear can we be about all this? Can we get it right, you and me in the 21st century, where
humanity has a past meddling with these themes in ways which perhaps have belittled infinity
and glorified finiteness?
I think we can get it right -- "it" being the starting-point, not the conclusion. We can unlearn the mistakes and get the questions sorted, and see some of the confusions so clearly we avoid them." Aristo Tacoma - Philosophy of the infinite A PRIVATE PUBLICATION
