>>> Mark Bloss on "Existence Exists"
MB> Are you asking for examples of infinity? God is a good example, but
MB> one good example that we _know_ exists, is Perfection. Perfection
MB> is an infinity. No one attains it, but it must be there or else we
MB> cannot come closer to it.
WE> Neither of these seem as real to me as the never ending sequence of
WE> integers: 0, 1, 2, 3, ... These have been proclaim by another as
WE> merely imaginary.
MB>
MB> You said they don't seem as real to you; this is only to be expected,
MB> since you use your senses to discern integers - but actually -
MB> integers are also imaginary - they in themselves have no substance.
Indeed, they're intellectual abstractions. Other imaginary examples of
infinity are, of course, those divine mental distractions, that some humans
count on more than integers.
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