Actual infinity
CONCEPT IN THE PHILOSOPHY OF MATHEMATICS
Potential infinity; Completed infinity; Actual infinities; Actual infinite; Potential infinite; Actually infinite; Completed infinite
In the philosophy of mathematics, the abstraction of actual infinity involves the acceptance (if the axiom of infinity is included) of infinite entities as given, actual and completed objects. These might include the set of natural numbers, extended real numbers, transfinite numbers, or even an infinite sequence of rational numbers.