The phrase "a finite thing" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing concepts or objects that have a defined limit or boundary, often in philosophical, mathematical, or scientific contexts.
Example: "In mathematics, a finite thing can be represented by a specific number of elements within a set."
Alternatives: "a limited entity" or "a bounded object".
The only way you get through it is to realize it's a finite thing".
Terrorism is not, as the president seems to suggest, a finite thing.
"You know there's an end coming; life is a finite thing," says Benson.
He is, after all, infinite in every respect, and therefore much easier to define than a finite thing.
Time can be twisted, he said, "so from one point of view the universe is a finite thing that is growing into something infinite if you wait forever, but from another point of view it's always infinite".
Poignant interview clip - Radio 4 in Four, David Bowie: "Life is a finite thing" https://t.co/hK0qyZKo6V The iconic singer told the BBC he did not fear growing old and was proud of having lived a life where he did what he always wanted to do.
As faithful as Mr. Wright has tried to be in his fervent new "Anna Karenina," in this sort of affair fidelity is a fragile, finite thing.
But Spinoza does adopt many of the psychological underpinnings Hobbes attributed to the passion in his basic ontology, going so far as to extend the purview of the "conatus" so that it becomes intrinsic to all finite things, all of which express "a perpetual and restless desire of power after power" (Leviathan 11.2).
Since all finite things are contingently actual, their alternatives are possible with respect to the same time, though these are not compossible with what is actual.
Man cannot reconcile the finite with the infinite, for "no finite thing can be transformed into an infinite nature".
In other words, a world is a set of individual substances; or, as Leibniz puts in the opening line of On the Ultimate Origination of Things, a world is a "collection of finite things".
