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    If actual infinites that neither increase nor decrease in... — Carmelics
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    Supports→Although actual infinites can have an ideal existence, they cannot really exist.

    If actual infinites that neither increase nor decrease in the number of members they contain were to really exist, absurd consequences would result.

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    Since conclusion 8 follows validly, if premises 6 and 7 are true the argument is sound. In defense of premise 6, he defines an actual infinite as a determinate totality that occurs when a part of a system can be put into a one-to-one correspondence with the entire system (Craig and Sinclair 2009: 104). Craig argues that if actual infinites that neither increase nor decrease in the number of members they contain were to really exist, rather absurd consequences would result. For example, imagine a library with an actually infinite number of books. Suppose that the library also contains an infini...

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