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    Supports→The world cannot have existed eternally in the past.

    As Cantor acknowledged and Craig developed, a completed actual infinite in the physical world generates contradictions, such as Hilbert's Hotel paradoxes applied to real subtraction.

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    Cantor
    # Cantor Georg Cantor was a 19th-century mathematician who revolutionized how we understand infinity and sets (collections of objects). He created new math tools to compare different sizes of infinity, proving that some infinities are actually "larger" than others—a mind-bending discovery that challenged the way people thought about mathematics. His work is foundational to modern mathematics, even though his ideas were initially controversial.
    Completed actual infinite(as a concept about whether infinity can be a complete thing)
    An infinite collection that is fully formed and exists as a finished whole, rather than something that keeps growing forever.
    Craig(as a philosopher making an argument about time)
    William Lane Craig is a philosopher and theologian known for arguments about God's existence and the nature of time; here he's arguing about whether time actually 'flows' or just exists.
    Hilbert's Hotel paradox(as an example of contradictions that arise from infinity)

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    A thought experiment showing that a hotel with infinite rooms behaves in strange, impossible ways—like fitting infinitely many new guests in a fully booked hotel.
    Real subtraction(as contrasted with abstract mathematical operations)
    The idea of actually removing or taking away things from a collection, as opposed to just theoretically imagining it.
    contradictions(as something Descartes thought God could have made true)
    Two statements that cannot both be true at the same time, like 'it is raining' and 'it is not raining' happening together.
    knowledge(Distinguished from mere true belief, which may be the product of indoctrination and need not exercise deliberative capacities.)
    Justified true belief — true belief that has been arrived at through the exercise of deliberative capacities, including comparison of and deliberation among alternatives.

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