What does apeirophobia mean?
Apeirophobia means The fear of infinity and/or eternity..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
The fear of infinity and/or eternity..
My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.
The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.
Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]
Wiener’s explanation would predict that apeirophobia creeps up in younger stages of life, and although we cannot know anything for sure without sufficient data, the reports scattered across the web seem to roughly match this concept. But there does seem to be a small percentage of people with apeirophobia who first experienced fear even before adolescence, such as myself.
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Apeirophobia means The fear of infinity and/or eternity..
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My view is free from apeirophobia, the horror of the infinite, which colored so much of what was written at the beginning of this century about the foundations of mathematics.
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