Finity vs Finitude - What's the difference?
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(rare, uncountable) The state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope.
* 1874 , , Idolatry: A Romance , ch. 31:
* 1899 , , "The White Silence":
* 1987 , , Time, the Familiar Stranger , ISBN 9780870235764,
* 2006 , Rolf A. F. Witzsche, Universal Divine Science: Spiritual Pedagogicals , ISBN 9781897046944,
(rare, countable) Something which is limited in number or scope.
* 1734 , , "A Brief Scheme of Ontology" in Philosophical Essays on Various Subjects (6th edition, 1794),
* 1837 Sep. 2, "The Transcendalist's Dialogues: No. IX," The Shepherd , vol. 3, no. 10,
* 1884 Jan., "Prayer and Science," Methodist Quarterly Review , 4th series, vol. 66,
The state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.
Finitude is a synonym of finity.
As nouns the difference between finity and finitude
is that finity is the state or characteristic of being limited in number or scope while finitude is the state or characteristic of being finite; limitedness.finity
English
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(finities)- He was calm in the conviction that he could measure and calculate the universe. . . . He matched finity against the Infinite.
- Nature has many tricks wherewith she convinces man of his finity .
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- In a very non-Aristotelian fashion, Nicholas of Cusa produced a synthesis of finity and infinity.
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- We . . . labor to find our identity in the infinite in spite of our encumberment in finity .
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- Disagreement in substance or essence . . . may be called Disproportion, as there is a disproportion between finities and infinities, i.e. there is no proportion between them.
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- If we imagined a person capable of comprehending infinity, we should merely think that he was able infinitely to add up finities .
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- And this condescension of infinite Perfection to the finities —to their imperfections, contingencies, and littlenesses—is the very result of its perfection.