Finitism is a philosophy of mathematics that accepts the existence only of finite mathematical objects. It is best understood in comparison to the mainstream...

(1884–1953) defended theistic finitism in his book A Philosophy of Religion, published in 1940. Brightman stated that theistic finitism began with Plato and he...

ultraintuitionism, strict formalism, strict finitism, actualism, predicativism, and strong finitism) is a form of finitism and intuitionism. There are various...

establish temporal finitism. He was followed by many others including St. Bonaventure. Philoponus' arguments for temporal finitism were severalfold. Contra...

it—essentially, the evidential problem of evil. The book argues for theistic finitism. Kushner proposes a finite God solution to the problem of evil. God is...

chain, and so are all impossible. Causal finitism could plausibly imply the discreteness of time, temporal finitism, infinitely large spatial regions, and...

constructivism. These include the program of intuitionism founded by Brouwer, the finitism of Hilbert and Bernays, the constructive recursive mathematics of Shanin...

over whether the universe had a finite or infinite past (see Temporal finitism). The philosophy of Aristotle held that the universe had an infinite past...

constructive analysis in his 1967 Foundations of Constructive Analysis. Finitism is an extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical...

For example, the following words end in a vowel sound: pied, aller, les, finit, beaux. The same words followed by a vowel, however, may sound the consonants...