Infinity

adversity. The speech serves as a reminder that resilience is not just about surviving, but also about growing from our experiences. FDR emphasized that hope is the foundation of resilience, giving us the courage to continue despite the odds. The "Day of Infinity" is a call to action, to harness the lessons of the past and apply them with renewed vigor. FDR assured the nation that, together, they could build an unbreakable chain of resilience for future generations. He ended on a note of unity,…

with Poincaré because they would see induction as following analytically from the definition of natural numbers. However, this response fails to fully address the argument, because Hempel’s logical approach cannot capture human intuition about the infinity of the natural numbers. To show the synthetic a priori nature of mathematical statements, Poincaré distinguishes between general and particular statements about the natural numbers, arguing that the former are synthetic, while the latter…

Primarily, the idea of infinity is caused by the limitations of the human mind. Furthermore, infinity only has meaning under the branch of mathematics. Our human capacities are not strong enough to ponder greater possibilities of the universe and because of this limitation we have identified this concept of infinity to solve the cosmological dilemma.A self-caused deity, with the necessary powers can exist outside of this…

One of the main ideas in “The Book of Sand” is infinity and how it can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge. An example of how infinity can not be defined and grasped by the human knowledge, is when the salesman tells the author to find the first page and he fails to locate the first page. The author says, “Every time I tried, a number of pages came between the cover and my thumb. It was as if they kept growing from the book” (Borges, 2). This idea of infinite pages gives the story…

Brewer English 3 “Where is Here” Mr. Yoder In Where is Here by Joyce Carol Oats, there are many different ideas that are all uniquely different, but perhaps none more unique than the idea of “infinity” that Oats displays within the story. There are three main figures in the story that are used to express infinity. The house, the family, and the drawing that the stranger drew for the son. Oats utilize these items to express an interesting idea to the reader such as to enable them to draw their…

them that it is foolish to deny God. In doing so, Pascal uses a subjectivist view of probability in his argument. Towards the beginning of “The Wager”, he compares the understanding of infinity with mathematical practices. For example, there is an infinite amount of numbers, but we don’t know what that infinity number is. Therefore, he is trying to say that we know that God is, but we don’t know what He is exactly. There is no illogicality in knowing that something exists…

In Orwell’s dystopian society, the telescreen is symbol of the governments omnipresence in the lives of the citizens of Oceania. Orwell anticipated a society in which the government would never allow trust of its citizens, thus revealing the telescreen in the first chapter as stated, “[t]he instrument (the telescreen, it was called) could be dimmed, but there was no way of shutting it off completely” (Orwell, 1949, p.4). The telescreen’s presence in the novel is not to control the society but to…

The cosmological argument for God’s existence is one of the most revered of the classical arguments for theism. Throughout history, it has found defenders from Aristotle to Aquinas to Leibniz, to name a few. There are actually three main variations of the cosmological argument: the kalam argument for a temporal first cause of the universe, the Thomistic argument for some ultimate ground of ontological being, and the Leibnizian argument for a necessary explanation of why the universe exists at…

for heteronomy over autonomy. Heteronomy is the revelation of self through other people’s appearances; the visualization of self by another. In his writings, Totality and Infinity, Levinas describes the rise of subjectivity from the notion of infinity, and in what way the relationship of the self with the other creates infinity. It states that the reduction of the other by philosophy to the comprehensible third term has been sought out for some time. In order for the self to be free and…

passage, the poem describes “Burtynsky’s drone helicopters” and the photographs of the Alberta Oil Sands he is able to take with them: . . . Foreground entered at distance, the eye surveils the McMurray Formation’s freestanding ruin mid-aspect to an infinity of abstraction. In Burtynsky’s photographs of the Oil Sands the foreground of the image is, as “Bitumen” points out, at a vast…