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by dragonwriter 4565 days ago
> My understanding of a line is that it is delimited by two points, but does not contain any points.

A line is (or can be viewed as) an infinite set of points.

> To elaborate, no point could be "on" a line because a point has no extension, whereas a line does.

That seems to be a consequence of an unusual definition of "on".