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24A Problem for Intuitionism: The Apparent Possibility of Performing Infinitely Many Tasks in a Finite TimeProceedings of the Aristotelian Society 90. 1990.A. W. Moore; II*—A Problem for Intuitionism: The Apparent Possibility of Performing Infinitely Many Tasks in a Finite Time, Proceedings of the Aristotelian Soci.
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12The InfinitePhilosophical Quarterly 41 (164): 348. 1991.Anyone who has pondered the limitlessness of space and time, or the endlessness of numbers, or the perfection of God will recognize the special fascination of this question. Adrian Moore's historical study of the infinite covers all its aspects, from the mathematical to the mystical
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6The Metaphysics of the Tractatus By Peter Carruthers Cambridge University Press: 1990, xiv + 210 pp., £27.50 (review)Philosophy 66 (255): 125-. 1991.
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7Taming the infiniteFoundations of Science 2 (1): 53-56. 1997.For over two thousand years thought about the infinite was dominated by Aristotelian hostility to the idea that the infinite could be a legitimate object of mathematical study. Then Cantor's work late in the nineteenth century seemed to overturn this orthodoxy. However, by highlighting ways in which infinitude still could not be brought under the control of mathematicians, Cantor's work may in fact have reinforced the orthodoxy.
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2Review of N. Ya. Vilenkin, In Search of Infinity [translated from V poiskakh beskonechnosti by Abe Shenitzer] (review)Philosophia Mathematica 4 (3). 1996.