In Infinitely Demanding, Critchley had already begun to articulate the methods by which the state of being a "dividual" – "the self which shapes itself in relation to the experience of an overwhelming, infinite demand that divides it from itself" – might represent the precondition for committed engagement rather than a paralysing paradox.
In Infinitely Polar Bear, his Cam Stuart bounces back and forth between these characterizations -- the painful, awkward, embarrassing, irritating manifestation of bipolar manic depression.
Mathematically exact multiplicity in finite columns with finite mass-transfer rates requires an unusual mass-transfer behavior as well as entry conditions different from those for multiplicity in infinitely long columns or in finite columns with infinite mass-transfer rates.
Earlier, I noted that Spinoza thinks infinitely many non-substantial objects exist: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many ways, i.e., everything which can fall under an infinite intellect" (Ip16).
God is now described not so much as the underlying substance of all things, but as the universal, immanent and sustaining cause of all that exists: "From the necessity of the divine nature there must follow infinitely many things in infinitely many modes, (i.e., everything that can fall under an infinite intellect)".
Each thing resembles every other thing in infinitely many, equally important respects but is also unlike every other thing in infinitely many, equally important respects.
Powerful consumer technology is enabling time-poor consumers to manage their lives in infinitely flexible ways.
In fact--and this is the great novelty--the tiles must appear in infinitely many orientations.
And like most staples, it can be prepared in infinitely subtle ways.
There are millions of songs, all perceived in infinitely changing ways, by millions of people.
A semi-infinite programming problem is an optimization problem in which finitely many variables appear in infinitely many constraints.
