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finite 1. bounded in magnitude or spatial or temporal extent 2. Maths logic having a number of elements that is a natural number; able to be counted using the natural numbers less than some natural number
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The INFINITE DIVISIBILITY of matter, or, in other words, the INFINITE divisibility of a FINITE thing, extending even to the minutest atom, is a point agreed among geometricians, though not less incomprehensible to common-sense than any of those mysteries in religion, against which the batteries of infidelity have been so industriously leveled. In order to obtain invariable physical laws, we have to proceed to differential equations, showing the direction of change at each moment, not the integral change after a finite interval, however short. The sea had jeeringly kept his finite body up, but drowned the infinite of his soul. |
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