Lexicographical Neighbors of Finitudes
Literary usage of Finitudes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Journal of Speculative Philosophy: Ed. by Wm. T. Harris edited by William Torrey Harris (1887)
"Since they are determinations they are not adequate to the idea of spirit, and
are finitudes only; in this we must include also the infinite [thought] that ..."
2. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"... dicated of finitudes only. " Mr Wallace (Logic of Begd, Prolog, pp. 48, 49}
spoil si Begel'a system of evolution aa having been in a lense tb« ..."
3. The Problem of Space in Jewish Mediaeval Philosophy by Israel Efros (1917)
"... number of infinites or an infinite number of finitudes, either alternatives
being impossible. Thus after a series of arguments Aristotle concludes the ..."
4. Discussions on Philosophy and Literature, Education and University Reform by William Hamilton (1861)
"... objective and necessary, instead of confounding the two inde- finitudes together.
Thus by mixing up the material with the formal—what was indefinitely ..."
5. Elements of Physiophilosophy by Lorenz Oken (1847)
"Numbers, however, are Singulars or finitudes, which constitute the world. 73.
Time is infinite, for it is the totality of positing; it is only the points or ..."
6. Through Scylla and Charybdis: Or, The Old Theology and the New by George Tyrrell (1907)
"... nor is the infinite an amalgamation of finitudes. Yet, though man cannot equal
his desire, to strain towards that equality is the very law of his ..."
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