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Quotes from Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality — Georg Cantor

1845–1918 Germany

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The actual infinite arises in three contexts: first when it is realized in the most complete form, in a fully independent otherworldly being, in Deo, where I call it the Absolute Infinite or simply Absolute; second when it occurs in the contingent, created world; third when the mind grasps it in abstracto as a mathematical magnitude, number or order type.

Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality (1988)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Georg Cantor (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.