Citations:apeirophobia
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English citations of apeirophobia
Noun: "the fear of infinity and/or of infinite things"
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- 1990, Reinhardt Grossman, The Fourth Way: A Theory of Knowledge, Indiana University Press (1990), →ISBN, page 227:
- 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.
- 1998, P. Christopher Smith, The Hermeneutics of Original Argument: Demonstration, Dialectic, Rhetoric, Northwestern University Press (1998), →ISBN, page 192:
- The clearest evidence of Aristotle's apeirophobia is to be found in the Posterior Analytics, book 1, chapters 19-22.
- 1999, Spencer Golub, Infinity (Stage), University of Michigan (2001), →ISBN, page 14:
- Apeirophobia (fear of infinity) seems here to prod thanatophobia (fear of death) and necrophobia (fear of corpses) into being and later nonbeing, […]
- 2012, Lauren Wantz, Disapora, Xlibris (2012), →ISBN, unnumbered page:
- Tonight we no longer suffer under the violent throes of apeirophobia.
- 2017, Patricia Schultz, “Atomic Oz on the Kansas Prairie”, in 1,000 Places to See in the United States and Canada Before You Die, New York, NY: Workman Publishing Company, →ISBN, page 608:
- For being so verifiably “heartland,” Kansas is also an odd place, much of it so flat and featureless that early settlers were said to sometimes go insane from a kind of apeirophobia—the fear of infinity.