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I&#x27;m sceptical about this. Yes, infinity is a weird idea. But it clearly stand beyond the limits of the world as we understand it, maybe the limits of the world as we can possibly understand it. So it&#x27;s not particularly surprising that we come to confusion when we pretend that infinity is a quality of the world as we understand it, or the world as we can possibly understand it. Just like Kant concluded was true of the idea of God.<p>In a related vein, it seems characteristic of the kind of philosophy that the later Wittgenstein, and more recently Peter K Unger, criticise as linguistic illusion, of the sort &#x27;If I have a ship and replace a plank, it remains the original ship, but if I replace every plank, does it become a new ship, or remain the same ship?&#x27; This is, to them, and to me, thinly veiled wordplay feigning as metaphysical insight. It extracts language from its normal use in concrete life and stands aghast then when one asks weird questions about one gets weird results.