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echo: philos
to: MARK BLOSS
from: WILLIAM ELLIOT
date: 1998-02-21 02:52:00
subject: `Existence Exists`

 >>> 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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