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'''Infinity''' ishas a word carrying a number of differentdiscrete meanings in [[mathematics]], [[philosophy]], [[theology]] and everyday life. Popular usage is often not in accordance with the term's more technical meanings. The word '''infinity''' come from latin : "In-finite", ''is not ended''.

In theology, for instance in the work of [[Duns Scotus]], the infinity of God carries the sense not so much of quantity (leading to the question, quantity of what?) but of unconstrainedness. In philosophy, infinity can be attributed to space and time, as for instance in [[Immanuel Kant|Kant]]'s first [[antinomy]]. In [[popular culture]], we find [[Buzz Lightyear]]'s rallying cry, "To infinity -- and beyond!" which might also be called the rallying cry of [[set theory|set theorists]] considering [[large cardinal]]s, which are quantitative infinities, defining the number of things in a [[collection]], so large that they cannot be proven to exist in the ordinary mathematics of Zermelo-Fraenkel plus Choice ([[ZFC]]), and which might be so large they embody a [[contradiction]].