Reply to comment on ``A simple explanation of the non-appearance of physical gluons and quarks"

This is the reply to a comment by Andreas Aste [hep-th/0302103] on a previous article of mine in Can.J.Phys. The counter-arguments used by Aste utilize a mathematical limit without physical meaning. We still contend that in QCD, the particles gluons'' and quarks’’ are merely artifacts of an approximation method (the perturbative expansion) and are simply absent in the exact theory.