Definition of finitism in English:
finitism
noun ˈfʌɪnʌɪtɪz(ə)mˈfīnəˌtizəm
mass nounMathematics Philosophy Rejection of the belief that anything can actually be infinite.
Example sentencesExamples
- According to meaning finitism, the move to the next instance is not intuitive or interpretive but ‘blind’.
- Dummett concludes that one route to such a local revisionism is a hard-headed finitism in which one denies that there is a determinate fact concerning the outcome of a procedure that has not been carried out.
- Of course, an analysis of the notion of finitism cannot be presented as a theorem.
- The make believe world of predicate logic was a mere conservative extension of finitism.
- Barnes built finitism into the core of his approach to social theory and to the analysis of social order.
Derivatives
adjective & noun
Mathematics Philosophy The hard-headed finitist has to restrict logic even further than the intuitionist does.
Example sentencesExamples
- This axiom is problematic in some systems, and some people, finitists such as Hilbert, wanted a consistent way to talk about infinity that stemmed from proofs using finitary means.
- Within a finitist framework, however, rules cannot be approached from the perspective of the individual because they are made up of continuous interactions.
- The finitist account of concept application demands that each new application is determined by the factors and contingencies operative at that time.
- The most unassailable way of reasoning is finitist.