Núñez R. E. (2010) Enacting infinity: Bringing transfinite cardinals into being. In: Stewart J., Gapenne O. & Di Paolo E. A. (eds.) Enaction: Toward a new paradigm for cognitive science.. MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 307–334.
Núñez R. E.
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2010)
Enacting infinity: Bringing transfinite cardinals into being.
In: Stewart J., Gapenne O. & Di Paolo E. A. (eds.) Enaction: Toward a new paradigm for cognitive science. MIT Press, Cambridge MA: 307–334.
Excerpt:I’ll eventually show that human everyday cognitive mechanisms, such as conceptual metaphor and blending – known to be major players in generating human imagination and abstraction – extend common sense in specific ways that bring mathematical infinity to being. The human mind enacts the infinite.
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