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2026
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| Accès en ligne: | https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.18343024 |
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- <p>This paper presents a comprehensive philosophical, empirical, and historical defense of the thesis that science is infinite: it possesses a temporal beginning but no epistemic terminus. We argue that scientific inquiry—including mathematics and all empirical sciences—while rooted in historical origins, exhibits no intrinsic limit to discovery, understanding, or refinement.</p> <p>The central argument is structured around four fundamental pillars: (1) the distinction between temporal initiation and epistemic boundedness; (2) the historical trajectory of scientific development, which consistently demonstrates perpetual expansion rather than convergence toward closure; (3) the self-referential and recursive nature of knowledge generation, wherein each solution gives rise to new questions; and (4) the logical incoherence inherent in claims of a final or complete state of knowledge.</p> <p>We contend that asserting the existence of an endpoint to science constitutes a profound epistemological error—comparable in magnitude to the historical assertion that the Earth is flat. In both cases, such claims reflect the limitations of contemporary perspective rather than genuine boundaries of the domain itself.</p> <p>Through rigorous analysis of the history of science, the structural properties of mathematical and empirical inquiry, and the cognitive conditions underlying human understanding, we demonstrate that infinity is not merely a speculative abstraction but a necessary consequence of how knowledge itself operates. This, ultimately, is the beauty of the evolution of human knowledge: it has no end.</p>