lavalamp comments on Infinitesimals: Another argument against actual infinite sets - Less Wrong
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Taboo exist; we can certainly do math on them and get useful results, so ???
If you modify your claim to "infinitesimals can never actually be constructed/written down in reality", I think you'll get a lot further. But of course that's much less shocking.