What is "finitude"

Usage examples of "finitude".

Modern thought, then, will contest even its own metaphysical impulses, and show that reflections upon life, labour, and language, in so far as they have value as analytics of finitude, express the end of metaphysics: the philosophy of life denounces metaphysics as a veil of illusion, that of labour denounces it as an alienated form of thought and an ideology, that of language as a cultural episode.

There would thus be a discipline that could cover in a single movement both the dimension of ethnology that relates the human sciences to the positivities in which they are framed and the dimension of psychoanalysis that relates the knowledge of man to the finitude that gives it its foundation.

The universe was not so darn gosh-awful big, he thought, we are just too small to appreciate its finitude.

And, when it was a mere intellectual exercise-in the warmth of the lounge of the Linnaean-I could conceive of going much further: I could have debated for long hours the Finitude of Time, or von Helmholtz's views on the inevitability of the Heat Death of the universe.

I could have debated for long hours the Finitude of Time, or von Helmholtz's views on the inevitability of the Heat Death of the universe.