He did equate the actual infinite with God . . . and I believe transfinite numbers stand for numbers that are composed of an infinite ammount of numbers that are infinite as well . . . not something that isn't finite nor infinite . . . but correct me if I'm wrong .-- Cosmic girl 04 : 42, 28 February 2006 ( UTC)
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Steven Duncan writes that " it was first formulated by a Greek-speaking Syriac Christian neo-Platonist, John Philoponus, " who claims to find a contradiction between the Greek pagan insistence on the eternity of the world and the Aristotelian rejection of the existence of any actual infinite . " Referring to the argument as the "'Kalam'cosmological argument ", Duncan asserts that it " received its fullest articulation at the hands of [ medieval ] Muslim and Jewish exponents of " Kalam " ( " the use of reason by believers to justify the basic metaphysical presuppositions of the faith ) ."
