The formal concept of infinity is much more difficult to understand than it appears. Cantor and Korzybski differ on these matters, but infinities are never nouns.
An infinity refers to an often generative process, not an object or completed set. A set, array, process, collection, etc., is said to be infinite with its members can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the members of one of its constituent arrays, processes, collections, parts, etc.
The actual meaning of this proceeds to gain profundity as it reveals itself to one’s insight and understanding. The result is like the object of contemplation, it is not an end. It is a way. And it is, like its parent-referent, infinitely deep in ways that exhibit orders — not merely elements. A spiral of orders, each uniquely exhibiting the motif…
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