Richard Sorabji on Aristotle's Notion of "Finite But Unbounded"

It's like the almonds that I sell at the traffic lights here, ... See this note in http://www.richardsorabji.co.uk/biography.html:

Sorabji’s philosophical interest had been ignited at an early age. When he was six, somebody told him, ‘You will die one day’. ‘Don’t be ridiculous’, he replied, ‘dying is for flies and butterflies’. But when he put this question to his mother, she told him the truth in the nicest possible way, adding that she herself believed in an after-life and pictured it like a garden. Sorabji read about this over the next ten years, but, to his regret, he was still worried by what she told him. He was later to write about whether philosophy could show that it was irrational to fear loss of the self in death, but that was in a book of 2006 on some of the many conceptions of the self, and there were other subjects to write about first.

This is a clip from the same series as Logic: The Structure of Reason. See On Mathematics and Abstract Language.

Richard Sorabji  is a fellow of Wolfson College, Oxford:

Sorabji was President of the Aristotelian Society from 1985 to 1986 and founded the international Ancient Commentators on Aristotle project in 1987. The aim of this project has been to publish the first translations into English of mostly Greek philosophical texts from the period 200–600 A.D, mainly commentaries on Aristotelian works. 100 volumes have been published up the end of 2012, many of them translating the commentaries on Aristotle into English for the first time. Sorabji has himself contributed introductions to some of the volumes, as well as a general introduction to the commentators reprinted in many of the volumes. He lists the translations on his official website. [http://www.richardsorabji.co.uk/].

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Somewhere Aristotle asks "What is it that pluralizes the one and makes it many? It is error and the nature of error." See Terence McKenna on Who Runs the World.