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What sense-relays inform us about infinity…

A waterfall that never seems to run dry. The ocean. Outer space. Time.

I think infinitude, i.e. a property of something which never ends, is a simplifying abstraction for the many things we come across in reality for which we can’t know where it ends or, in a specific context, we don’t care.



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