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Full Idea
In Cantor's new vision, the infinite, the genuine infinite, does not disappear, but presents itself in the guise of the absolute, as manifested in the species of all sets or the species of all ordinal numbers.
Gist of Idea
Cantor's infinite is an absolute, of all the sets or all the ordinal numbers
Source
John Mayberry (What Required for Foundation for Maths? [1994], p.414-2)
Book Ref
'Philosophy of Mathematics: anthology', ed/tr. Jacquette,Dale [Blackwell 2002], p.414
Related Idea
Idea 17797 Cantor extended the finite (rather than 'taming the infinite') [Mayberry]