While many hold mathematics to be the perfect example of a science, where there's only been progress, the entirety of the infinitesimal calculus and it's derivatives are based on false principles
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I suppose Guenon is against the infinite at a conceptual level? Differential calculus is formally equivalent to an algebraic theory (nonstandard analysis) if one accepts the real numbers, and a real number is just an infinite set of rational numbers (Dedekind cuts).
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Not against the concept of the Infinite itself, but the common concept of the Infinite. He has a very specific conception of the Infinite (which I think is true), but his critique is only valid from his viewpoint.
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