finitizev.
/ˈfʌɪnʌɪtʌɪz/ transitive. To make finite.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > finiteness > make finite [verb (transitive)]
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1906 S. S. Laurie Synthetica II. 85 The Unconditional has been under a necessity to finitise Itself.
1917 A. S. Pringle-Pattison Idea of God xvi. 321 Professor Howison..seems to use the idea of self-consciousness entirely as a principle of separation and exclusion, which finitizes even what he calls ‘the Supreme Instance’, the ‘absolutely perfect mind, or God’.
Derivatives
ˈfinitizing n.
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > infiniteness > finiteness > [noun] > making finite
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1930 Monument to St. Augustine 257 In his account of Kant, Hegel reproaches him with a shallow finitizing, whereas Spinoza represents for him an impracticable infinitizing.
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