Relations between the finite and the continuum (Q4037517)

This paper describes attempts to analyse and formalize aspects of experience and language that usually escape mathematical treatment, especially treatment in terms of the usual set-theoretic framework. Examples involve operators like ``very'', ``almost'', ``many'', and ``few''. The author devotes most of the paper to what he calls empirical sets. This involves a topological space \(I\) of observers, a set \(X\) of things that may be observed by members of \(I\), a relation ``\(i\) sees \(x\)'', and a relation ``\(i\) confounds \(x\) and \(x'\)''. Various properties of such structures are formulated and studied, as well as operations on them and mappings between them. However, nothing of interest seems to come out of all this, either for the theories themselves or for possible applications. For the entire collection see [Zbl 0758.00020].