As Gauss stressed long ago, any kind of singular mathematics acquires a meaning only as a limiting form of some kind of well-behaved mathematics, and it is ambiguous until we specify exactly what limiting process we propose to use. In this sense, singular mathematics has necessarily a kind of anthropomorphic character; the question is not what is it, but rather how shall we define it so that it is in some way useful to us?
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