Relations between the finite and the continuum

MaRDI QIDQ4037517zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Jean Bénabou

Publication date 18 May 1993

zbMATH Keywords

empirical setsexperiencelanguagestopological space of observersvague operators

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Other nonclassical logic (03B60) Logic of natural languages (03B65)

Review text

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].

Recommendations

• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 222501
• Continua without sets
• scientific article; zbMATH DE number 6863695
• The destiny of the Cantor- Dedekind model
• On the foundations of constructive mathematics -- especially in relation to the theory of continuous functions

This page was built for publication: Relations between the finite and the continuum

Report a bug (only for logged in users!)Click here to report a bug for this page (MaRDI item Q4037517)