Useful geometrical fictions

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1. The infintesimal point.

2. The infintesimally thin infinitely long line.

3. The infintesimally thin and infinitely long and wide plane.

4. The infintesimally vaccuous and infinitely expansive volume. (space)

5. The infintesimally instantiated and infinitely extended duration. (time)
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