Sentence examples for a finite being from inspiring English sources

Levinas asks: "[Is] the need for escape not the exclusive matter of a finite being?…Would an infinite being have the need to take leave of itself?" We are admittedly finite.

Finally, the individual being is the actual existence of the primary substance of a finite being as distinct from the whole reality of the finite being itself (SN, part VI, chap. 1, fol. 92vb).

For a start, God did not create space and time, but is subject to them and therefore a finite being.

In contrast, because ontology treats the Other as an object of judgments made by theoretical reason, it deals with him as a finite being.

But even the ideal mathematician remains a finite being.

So Descartes thought that as a finite being, my ideas must all have a finite degree of formal reality, but they can have varying degrees of objective reality all the way up to the infinite level.

(This we demonstrated above in the discussion of movement). And it makes no difference whether a finite is passing by an infinite or an infinite by a finite.

It was a finite story, wasn't it?

Our complete failure to decarbonise our energy, which is a finite resource, is the real issue.

A theory that has a finite axiomatization is said to be finitely based or finitely axiomatizable.

Finite is stuff that should be handled with the back of the hand, and there's a finite beginning and end to it.