English
finitism
From finite + -ism.
Formed from finite + -ism
Latin fīnis ‘boundary’
Latin fīniō ‘to finish’
Latin fīnītus ‘finished, terminated, having been finished or…’
Middle English fynyte
English finite
Today it means
noun An extreme form of constructivism, according to which a mathematical object does not exist unless it can be constructed from natural numbers in a finite number of steps.
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Etymograph / finitism