lavalamp comments on Infinitesimals: Another argument against actual infinite sets - Less Wrong

-21 Post author: common_law 26 January 2013 03:04AM

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Comment author: lavalamp 26 January 2013 02:26:06PM 4 points [-]
  1. Infinitesimal quantities can’t exist;

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.