Ah, so by “there could be infinitesimals” you meant “there could be things of infinitesimal measure”.
Yes. Definitely. Sorry that was unclear. And infinitesimal measures result in probabilities which are zero in some sense, but not exactly zero in a different sense.
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Ah, so by “there could be infinitesimals” you meant “there could be things of infinitesimal measure”.
Yes. Definitely. Sorry that was unclear. And infinitesimal measures result in probabilities which are zero in some sense, but not exactly zero in a different sense.