Potential and actual infinity? Doesn't the concept encompass both?
And now I have a new tag.
Now I did a job. I got nothing but trouble since I did it, not to mention more than a few unkind words as regard to my character so let me make this abundantly clear. I do the job. And then I get paid.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Spike's Bitches 27: I'm Embarrassed for Our Kind.
[NAFDA] Spike-centric discussion. Lusty, lewd (only occasionally crude), risque (and frisque), bawdy (Oh, lawdy!), flirty ('cuz we're purty), raunchy talk inside. Caveat lector.
Jen - Oct 26, 2005 8:25:19 pm PDT #805 of 10003
love's a dream you enter though I shake and shake and shake you
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 8:25:49 pm PDT #806 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Far enough that they had to pull her up, before they pulled her out.
sigh
I miss my epidural.
How's school? How are you? When do you go on your trip or did you go already? I am so behind. Have you seen recent pictures?
Atropa - Oct 26, 2005 8:31:13 pm PDT #807 of 10003
The artist formerly associated with cupcakes.
The moms and the OB/GYN nurse are the ones awake.
I am neither of those things, yet I am awake. Packing, packing, packing. And maybe a bath soon.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 8:32:10 pm PDT #808 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
Ok, but you didn't post right away.
must stop making blanket statements in here - Jeebus
*w*
Emily - Oct 26, 2005 8:32:15 pm PDT #809 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Potential and actual infinity? Doesn't the concept encompass both?
Well, now, sure. Thing is, the Greeks* were kind of skeeved by this whole idea of, say, there being as many numbers between 0 and 1 as there are on the entire number line. Understandably. I think potential and actual infinity was pretty much Aristotle's way of addressing Zeno's paradoxes -- like, there's no end to how small you can cut up an interval of time (potential infinity), but that doesn't mean that there's actually an infinite number of tiny bits of time in an instant (actual infinity). If you see what I mean.
(* Ancient Greeks. I make no claims about Raq's neighbors. For that matter, it may be that your regular everyday amphora-maker was totally cool with the idea of the part being as large as the whole, and it's really only the well-known ancient Greek philosophers who couldn't manage it.)
P.M. Marc - Oct 26, 2005 8:32:36 pm PDT #810 of 10003
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Burrell - Oct 26, 2005 8:33:24 pm PDT #811 of 10003
Why did Darth Vader cross the road? To get to the Dark Side!
I miss my epidural.
Why? you jonesing for numb legs?
I'm tired. I think I should go to bed while I still have a chance at getting 4 hours' sleep.
Aims - Oct 26, 2005 8:34:32 pm PDT #812 of 10003
Shit's all sorts of different now.
![[link]](http://pg.photos.yahoo.com/ph/aimeeconat/detail?.dir=2180&.dnm=66f3.jpg){kind=link}
Pictures!!
Why? you jonesing for numb legs?
Heh. No, I slept through transition and the section. I want sleep that deep again.
ChiKat - Oct 26, 2005 8:34:53 pm PDT #813 of 10003
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
The moms and the OB/GYN nurse are the ones awake.
I am neither of those things, yet I am awake.
Me, too, Jilli. I'm (supposedly) writing a paper.
Emily - Oct 26, 2005 8:35:16 pm PDT #814 of 10003
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
I really love the "See? Toes!" photo.