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On the theory of the infinite in modern thought

Jourdain, Eleanor F. (Eleanor Frances), 1863-1924; Jourdain, Philip E. B. (Philip Edward Bertrand), 1879-1919 [Contributor]· 3 chapters· 9,985 words

Of the two papers here reproduced, the first was given in 1905 to a meeting of the women science students in Oxford; the second, in 1908, to the Philosophical Society of this College. They are printed by request, with the author’s apologies for their incompleteness. The lectur...

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1. Part 1

Of the two papers here reproduced, the first was given in 1905 to a meeting of the women science students in Oxford; the second, in 1908, to the Philosophical Society of this Co...

2. Part 2

Now the conception of this Absolute Infinite, of which the aggregate of all ordinal numbers is perhaps a symbol,[10] has been subjected to criticism. Some mathematicians[11] thi...

3. Part 3

Prof. C. Keyser develops this thought, and shows (in two recent articles, January and April 1909, in the _Hibbert Journal_) that certain theological dogmas, such as the doctrine...