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The distinction between actual and potential infinity is philosophically significant
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Multiple scholarly sources and reference works confirm that the distinction between actual and potential infinity has been a central and debated concept throughout the history of philosophy, metaphysics, and mathematics.

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Wikipedia: Infinity
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Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Infinity
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Covers Aristotle's potential infinity and related philosophical distinctions.
Dartmouth: Infinity
1993 · cited by 0
Refers to the distinction between actual and potential infinity.
Routledge: Dictionary of world philosophy
2001 · cited by 0
Mentions the distinction between actual and potential infinity in metaphysics.
Oxford University Press: The Oxford handbook of Wittgenstein
2011 · cited by 0
Notes that the distinction between actual and potential infinities was familiar in philosophical clarification.
Oxford University Press: The Oxford companion to philosophy
2005 · cited by 0
References philosophical formulations of actual and ideal/potential entities.
Routledge: American philosophy : an encyclopedia
2008 · cited by 0
Mentions the distinction between actual and potential infinite in American philosophy.
OpenAIRE: Choice Sequences and Spreads
2000 · cited by 0
Discusses how the distinction between potential and actual infinity arises in mathematics and philosophy.
OpenAIRE: Infinity
2007 · cited by 0
Emphasizes the contrast between potential and actual infinity as a major topic in mathematics and philosophy.
OpenAIRE: Introducing the Main Characters
2019 · cited by 0
Examines Leibniz's distinction between actual and potential infinity as a central philosophical concept.
OpenAIRE: ETHICS OF ROBOTS
2025 · cited by 0
Explores the philosophical and epistemological significance of the distinction between potential and actual infinity.
OpenAIRE: 3. Historical views of infinity
2017 · cited by 0
Covers historical and philosophical attitudes to infinity, highlighting Aristotle's distinction.
OpenAIRE: A dialogue on Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoise
1993 · cited by 0
Investigates Zeno's paradoxes and Aristotle's distinction between actual and potential infinity.
Everything we examined (27)
  1. Wikipedia: Infinityreferencesupports
  2. Wikipedia: Potentiality and actualityreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  3. Book: Infinity in Early Modern Philosophyreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  4. Book: Philosophy of Logicreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  5. Book: Empiricism and Philosophy of Physicsreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  6. Book: Handbook of the History and Philosophy of Mathematical Practicereferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  7. Book: Introducing Philosophy of Mathematicsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  8. Book: Philosophy of Religionreferencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  9. Book: Wittgenstein--eine Neubewertung :referencesupportsnot shown: a book whose author and subject did not establish authority here
  10. Book: Philosophy of Mathematics Todayreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  11. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: Infinityreferencesupports
  12. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Distinction Between Innate and Acquired Characteristicsreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  13. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy: The Analytic/Synthetic Distinctionreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  14. Dartmouth: Infinityreferencesupports
  15. Routledge: Dictionary of world philosophyreferencesupports
  16. Oxford University Press: The Oxford handbook of Wittgensteinreferencesupports
  17. Learned Publications: God in contemporary thought : a philosophical perspective : a collective studyreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  18. Oxford University Press: The Oxford companion to philosophyreferencesupports
  19. Routledge: American philosophy : an encyclopediareferencesupports
  20. Collier Macmillan Publishers: Encyclopedia of Philosophy Volume 7 & 8 Indexreferenceno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  21. Alfred Nobel University Journal of Philology: FUTURAL POTENTIAL OF THE PRESENT TENSE IN MODERN FRENCHpeer-reviewedno side takennot shown: read and judged not to bear on this claim
  22. OpenAIRE: Choice Sequences and Spreadspeer-reviewedsupports
  23. OpenAIRE: Infinitypeer-reviewedsupports
  24. OpenAIRE: Introducing the Main Characterspeer-reviewedsupports
  25. OpenAIRE: ETHICS OF ROBOTSpeer-reviewedsupports
  26. OpenAIRE: 3. Historical views of infinitypeer-reviewedsupports
  27. OpenAIRE: A dialogue on Zeno's paradox of Achilles and the tortoisepeer-reviewedsupports
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