Infinitude is immediately involved in unity, andfiniteness in plurality.
It is only a sense of the poverty of finitenessthat gives a sense of the bliss of infiniteness.
For finitenessand nothingness are identical; finiteness is only a euphemism for nothingness.
Finiteness is the metaphysical, the theoretical--nothingness the pathological, practical expression.
For man's consciousness of his finiteness amid an infinite universe, and of his sinfulness (i.
Because of our finiteness and sin, the total record in Scripture of God's past communications is a more trustworthy source of theology than are our conclusions from nature or our private impressions of the teaching of the Spirit.
Finiteness and separateness are evil, and the only way to purity and rest is by ceasing to exist.
Finiteness is a hindrance to the development of our personality.
Theology has its limitations: (a) In the finiteness of the human understanding.
As has been shown above, holiness is contrasted in Scripture, not with mere finiteness or littleness or misfortune or poverty or even unreality, but only with uncleanness and sinfulness.
The Hegelian statement that all finite things carry within themselves the germ of their own dissolution came home to his own philosophy, as soon as its finiteness and limitations had been grasped.
In his dialectic discussions of mind and matter, finiteness and infinity, god and the world, Dietzgen has thoroughly clarified the confused mystery which surrounded these conceptions and has definitely refuted all transcendental beliefs.
The intellect, like the perceptible world which exists only in it, is a mere phenomenon; but the finiteness of both does not affect that of which they are the phenomenal appearance.
This depends upon the fact that in this animal the infinite nature of its Idea (species) is imprinted in the finiteness of the individual.
The fact that in the case of a finite being this local presence is itself limited, is at once a corollary and an index of the finiteness of the being in question.
It arises out of the feeling of finiteness and one's own limitation, and out of the apparent contradiction between this feeling and the idea of infinity which is involved in all true love.
Evil is not an intruder in an otherwise perfect universe; finiteness presumes it.
It tries to prove the finiteness of the series of causes by saying that, in order to be sufficient, a cause must contain the complete sum of the conditions from which the succeeding state, the effect, proceeds.
The result of not being able to appreciate this, is that the finiteness of our sense, caused by its dependence on Motion for excitation, surrounds us with illusions; one of these illusions is what we call solidity or continuity of sensation.
In itself it is evil, but in relation to the whole it has value by showing us its own finiteness and imperfection.
At page 649 we read: "Evil is the finiteness of the world-being which clings to all individual existences by virtue of their belonging to the immanent world-order.
Its wonder however is the more serious, as it here stands for the first time consciously in the presence of death, and besides the finiteness of all existence, the vanity of all effort forces itself more or less upon it.
Yet it is not every proof from abstract conceptions, with a conclusion which clearly contradicts perception (as here the finiteness of space), that can thus be referred to a logical error.
M404) Finitenessof our minds no excuse for the geometers.
By "the excuse" is meant thefiniteness of our mind--making it possible for contradictions to appear true to us.
Similarly God's unity in Maimonides is among other things based upon the finiteness of the world and its unity.
And the Bible also alludes to the finiteness of the universe in the words of Isaiah (40, 12): "Who hath measured the waters in the hollow of his hand.
On the other hand, it is claimed on the basis of the finiteness of human action that both reward and punishment should be finite.
From this Mount of Vision we know that infinity and finiteness have no pertinence to modifications of consciousness, or in fact to any series.
Finity or finiteness corresponds in the Reason to limitation in the Sense and Understanding.
Infinity and finiteness are contradictory and mutually exclusive qualities.
We appear to ourselves as limited and related, not because of our personality, but because of our finiteness as quality in the personality.
In telescopes of the best construction and of moderate aperture the performance is not sensibly prejudiced by outstanding aberration, and the limit imposed by the finiteness of the waves of light is practically reached.
The actual finiteness of [lambda] imposes a limit upon the separating or resolving power of an optical instrument.
In the case of unequal width the bands cannot be black; but if h = k, the finiteness of 2g does not preclude the formation of black bands.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "finiteness" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
