See this prior post and comments on Zalamea. For now just a brief excerpt from his book Peirce's Continuum:
"It should be obvious that a given model alone (actual, determinate) cannot, in principle, capture all the richness of a general
concept (possible, indeterminate). [...] The existence of multiple ways
of representing and modeling should avoid any identification of a mathematical concept with a mathematical object. [...] It turns out that continuity is a protean concept, which [...] can be modeled in several diverse ways. [...] The continuum (general) can only be approached by its different signs (particular models) in representational contexts" (4 - 5).
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