 Indeed, according to some authors the qualitative and mathematical conceptions are inextricably tied. Consider for instance Pascal’s use of infinite distance both in projective geometry and in his Pensées where he muses on the infinite distance (and disproportion) between finite human beings and the infinite God (see Cortese 2015). The following passage is representative of the powerful and suggestive role that appeal to finiteness and infinity plays in Pascal’s apologetics: