According to this way of thinking, finite humanity, which could never make satisfaction to the infinite God, could expect only eternal death.
For example, to someone who says that since "the rule of expansion determine[s] the series completely," "it must implicitly determine all questions about the structure of the series," Wittgenstein replies: "Here you are thinking of finite series" (RFM V, §11).
In terms of his ontology, the mind is a (finite) substance, and thought or thinking is its attribute.
From this point onward we are referring to such representation as the "molecule", i.e. the set of atoms that a chemist usually includes when he/she writes the structural formula of a given compound and that may consist of one or more separate moieties, charged or not (at this moment, we are thinking only of finite moieties, we will consider polymers in subsequent paragraphs).
The flaw of thinking there is a finite usage period lies in overlooking the fact there will be discoveries and innovation that will move the estimate upward.
In the age of Botox and "60 is the new 40" hype, few of us seem to be thinking of the future in finite terms.
The idea of myself as a thinking thing, for example, has a finite degree of objective reality, while the idea of God has an infinite degree of such reality.
For Spinoza, finite minds are not themselves substances, but rather modes of thinking substance.
But maybe we can also imagine the mind of God – that is to say, the infinite totality of thinking – as like the sea, and the thoughts of finite beings as like waves that arise and then pass away.
Taking a risk is not foolhardy: it requires judgment, a clear understanding of Australia's past and future investment, not just in finite resources like coal and oil but in the infinite resources of the thinking mind.
