Had Mittag-leffler Had His Way, I Should

There Is No Doubt That We Cannot Do Without Variable Quantities In The Sense Of The Potential Infinite. But From This Very Fact The Necessity Of The Actual Infinite Can Be Demonstrated.

This View [of The Infinite], Which I Consider To Be The Sole Correct One, Is Held By Only A Few. While Possibly I Am The Very First In History To Take This Position So Explicitly, With All Of Its Logical Consequences, I Know For Sure That I Shall Not Be The Last!

My Beautiful Proof Lies All In Ruins.

A False Conclusion Once Arrived At And Widely Accepted Is Not Easily Dislodged And The Less It Is Understood The More Tenaciously It Is Held.

The Actual Infinite Arises In Three Contexts: First When It Is Realized In The Most Complete Form, In A Fully Independent Otherworldly Being, In Deo, Where I Call It The Absolute Infinite Or Simply Absolute; Second When It Occurs In The Contingent, Created World; Third When The Mind Grasps It In Abstracto As A Mathematical Magnitude, Number Or Order Type.