straight lines, if produced indefinitely ...", thus avoiding the implication that Euclid was comfortable with the notion of infinity. Finally, it has been maintained that a reflection on infinity, far from eliciting a "horror of the infinite", underlay all of early Greek philosophy and that Aristotle's "potential infinity" is an aberration from the general trend of this period.

Zeno: Achilles and the tortoise

Zeno of Elea ( 495 - 430 BC) did not advance any views concerning the infinite.

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