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Another mathematical point is that mathematical models involving infinite things can sometimes be shown to be equivalent to mathematical models involving only finite things. Terence Tao has written extensively on this; see, for example, this blog post. So quibbling about infinities is very much quibbling about properties of the map, not properties of the territory.