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    Supports→The claim that a potentially infinite array of expressions can be 'passed to' concrete sensory-motor and conceptual-intentional systems is problematic, because passing each one would require a potentially infinite amount of time.

    A system with potential infinity of outputs commits only to the absence of a finite upper bound, not to the simultaneous or sequential actualization of all outputs, so no infinite time is entailed.

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    Key Terms

    actualization(Modal-Hamiltonian Interpretation)
    The process by which a quantum observable acquires a definite actual value, as defined by the Hamiltonian in MHI
    entailed(as used in logic)
    When one thing logically forces another thing to be true—if the first is true, the second must be true too.
    finite(Bradley's metaphysics)
    An entity that has something that limits it.
    potential infinity(Contrasted with 'actual infinity'; intuitionists typically accept only potential infinities in the Aristotelian tradition)
    An infinity understood as an ongoing, never-completed process of extension, as opposed to a completed totality
    upper bound(Classical real analysis, as discussed in the context of PM's type theory)

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    A real number r is an upper bound of a class S of real numbers if and only if every member s of S satisfies s ≤ r; formally: ∃r ∀s (s ∈ S ⊃ s ≤ r)

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