finitist

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an adherent of finitism, especially the view that mathematics should use only finite objects or procedures

   The finitist rejected proofs that depended on a completed infinite totality.

2. 2
   adj

   relating to finitism or favoring a finite explanation

   The paradox no longer seemed to require a finitist account of the world.

From finite + -ist. The philosophical and mathematical term names someone who restricts acceptable entities or methods to the finite; finite comes from Latin finitus ("bounded, ended").

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