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Infinity (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠its true transcendental sense is not a very large quantity but a synthesis that can never be completed.

Infinity (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not a maximum but a relation to an arbitrary unit: make the unit bigger or smaller and the infinite stays just as infinite.

Infinity (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠progress says 'you ought never to stop', while indefinite progress says 'extend it as far as you want' — for a line one can draw, the difference is an empty subtlety.

Infinity (n.) of ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a line drawn in indefinitum presupposes a space and time that can only inhere in intuition — it could never be concluded from concepts.

Infinity (n.) in ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the Kantian notion is only an ideal of reason — the finite projected and amplified; the infinite presupposes the finite, the most anti-Cartesian point of that philosophy.