Oppositions and paradoxes in mathematics and philosophy

John L. Bell

pp. 165-180

in: Axiomathes 15 (2), 2005.

Abstrakt

In this paper a number of oppositions which have haunted mathematics and philosophy are described and analyzed. These include the Continuous and the Discrete, the One and the Many, the Finite and the Infinite, the Whole and the Part, and the Constant and the Variable.