Thomas treated ....

Thomas treated the first of these issues in the sum against the pagans. For Bonaventure, an infinite sequence that can not be ordered, because they do not have duration of initially - for example, a first revolution - Thomas replied that there is a difficulty, if infinitely, as both the existing time, however, does’t there are at once, but after the other. "Comp Rise in this direction," says Thomas, "everything is finished infinite." In other words, each revolution lunar landing ferry (we say) requires only that an earlier revolution to be supplemented to the next life. The new revolution depends not only there was an initial revolution, only a precedent. A first revolution would be necessary, the "order" infinite sequence, when all at once there revolutions.

Bonaventura, the argument that the infinity can not be added, Thomas replied: "There is nothing to prevent an infinitely to the page is finished." In other words, the infinite duration of the world means an infinite past, an infinitely means an infinite past in a single direction, but not both. For example, if a new revolution of the moon is the age of the world, they are in the party quits the party, an end to the time that now from our experience.

Thomas reply to the third objection Bonaventure that infinity can not be delayed, is back in the theological sum. "Passage," he says, "is always like end to end. Whatever past, we chose the moment there is a finite number of days can be moved. Once again, Infinity will be terminated. Thomas answer here is in essence a reminder of his answers to the two previous objections; it includes an obstinate refusal to consider the concept of unlimited duration in its entirety. Thomas has, so to speak, it has rejected in the stage Bonaventure. What this refusal is justified logical, or just strategically, is the question I now respond.