Originally Posted By: Bill S.

As I see it, there are two main ways in which language is used:
Artistic; in which you use words in novel and imaginative ways.
Scientific: in which you strive for clarity and precision.

It seems that the scientific community are content to use infinity in distinctly "artistic" ways.


It sort of is like that.

As I said consider PI it's a little less abstract it has a very precise meaning but you can't derive a precise finite number from it you can only truncate it to a precision you require.

PI and infinity share the same house in science they are a concepts and imprecise in the true global sense if you are trying to extract detail from them.

As you said
Scientific: in which you strive for clarity and precision

See both PI and Infinity defy that statement because they do they can only have arbitrary precision chosen by us.

It appears to me you want to turn Infinity into something hard and real (I called it "absolute infinity") and we don't view infinity like that.

Hell you can't even view PI as something hard and real because I have no way to give you and exact number for it.

I believe in "Evil, Bad, Ungodly fantasy science and maths", so I am undoubtedly wrong to you.