(Sort of supporting the point Spengler would later make about "infinity" being a peculiarly European Christian cultural concept, Cantor was a *very* devout Christian who saw his mathematics as a logical extension of the whole "Can God make a rock so big he can't lift it" stuff)
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But just as the ε isn't actually 0, because 4+0 would just be 4, the "infinity" isn't actually the old school (contradictory) idea of this objective highest number that exists ∞ that is the result of 1/0
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It's just this special thing sitting next to the real number you're not allowed to touch And that's the big distinction with Cantor, whose WHOLE THING was imagining infinities that relate, specifically, to other infinities, with operations that apply specifically to them
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Lol did I just say the reciprocal of 4+x is 1/4+1/x I sure can math good
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