Philoponus'arguments for temporal finitism were severalfold . " Contra Aristotlem " has been lost, and is chiefly known through the citations used by Simplicius of Cilicia in his commentaries on Aristotle's " Physics " and " De Caelo ".
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Kant's argument for finitism has been widely discussed, for instance Jonathan Bennett points out that Kant's argument is not a sound logical proof : His assertion that " Now the infinity of a series consists in the fact that it can never be completed through successive synthesis.
