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    Supports→Leibniz himself denied that infinitesimals had any fixed ontological status, treating them as useful fictions governed by the law of continuity rather than as genuine magnitudes of a specific kind.

    Leibniz's extensive use of infinitesimals in calculus while denying their reality suggests he viewed them pragmatically as computational tools.

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