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...distinction of an infinity, a parte ante and a parte post, cannot hold good, inasmuch as it would necessarily follow that one infinity is greater than another, and also that infinity is wasting away and verging to an end. There is a similar eubtilty with regard to the infinite divisibility of By the idea...

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...distinction which is commonly received of infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite...

...has flowed on down to the present day, since the usually received distinction of an infinity, a parts ante and a parte post, cannot hold good : for it would...interferes to still greater disadvantage with the diseovery of causes. For, although the greatest generalities in nature must be positive, just an they...

...distinction which is commonly received of infinity in time past and in time to come can by no means hold; for it would thence follow that one infinity is greater than another, and that infinity is wasting away and tending to become finite. The like subtlety arises touching the infinite...