**Links to**: [[Cantor]], [[Transfinite number]], [[Transfinite extensions]], [[Axiom of choice]], [[Arithmetic]], [[Set theory]], [[Mathematics]], [[Computational irreducibility]], [[Incompleteness]], [[Uncertainty]], [[Choice sequences]], [[Suspension of disbelief]], [[Hegel]], [[Bertrand Russell]], [[Logic]], [[Set theory]], [[Derrida]], [[Zizek]]. ### [[Postulate]]: For now, let us say that _infinity_ is the concept we tend to use for the suspension of disbelief (“...”). For construction’s sake. %% > Our minds are finite, and yet even in these circumstances of finitude we are surrounded by possibilities that are infinite, and the purpose of life is to grasp as much as we can out of that infinitude. > > Whitehead cited in N. Rose _Mathematical Maxims and Minims_ (Raleigh N C 1988). [[Infinity notes]]