Chapter
Leibniz’s Syncategorematic Actual Infinite
Abstract
It is well known that Leibniz advocated the actual infinite, but that he did not admit infinite collections or infinite numbers. But his assimilation of this account to the scholastic notion of the syncategorematic infinite (more accurately, the infinite syncategorematically understood) has given rise to controversy. A common interpretation is that in mathematics Leibniz’s syncategorematic infinite is identical with the Aristotelian potential …
Authors
Arthur RTW
Book title
Infinity in Early Modern Philosophy
Series
The New Synthese Historical Library
Volume
76
Pagination
pp. 155-179
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
2018
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-94556-9_10