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1. Infinite

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   Historical Conceptualizations
   Ancient Greek philosophers treated the concept primarily as apeiron (ἄπειρον), or the unlimited. Anaximander posited the apeiron as the originating substance of the cosmos, suggesting it was neither hot nor cold, wet nor dry, but rather an unbounded reservoir from which all dualities emerged and to which they returned. Aristotle later differentiated between potential infinity and actual infinity, arguing that only the former—th…