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finitism

noun

Etymology

From finite + -ism.

  1. derived from fīnītus
  2. inherited from fynyte
  3. suffixed as finitism — “finite + ism”

Definitions

  1. An extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical object does not…

    An extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical object does not exist unless it can be constructed from natural numbers in a finite number of steps.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for finitism. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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