Regions-based two dimensional continua: the Euclidean case

DOI10.12775/LLP.2015.011MaRDI QIDQ2987753zbMATH OpenFDO

Authors Geoffrey Hellman, Stewart Shapiro

Publication date 18 May 2017

Published in Logic and Logical Philosophy (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2015.011

zbMATH Keywords

Archimedean propertyEuclidean geometrygunkmereologypoint-free geometrypointsTarski

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Philosophical and critical aspects of logic and foundations (03A05) Foundations of classical theories (including reverse mathematics) (03B30) Euclidean geometries (general) and generalizations (51M05)

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Cites work

• A categorical axiomatisation of region-based geometry
• Axiomatizability of geometry without points
• Connection structures: Grzegorczyk's and Whitehead's definitions of point
• Full Development of Tarski's Geometry of Solids
• The classical continuum without points

Cited in

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• Leibniz on the continuity of space
• Gunkology and pointilism: two mutually supervening models of the region-based and the point-based theory of the infinite two-dimensional continuum
• Predicativity and regions-based continua
• Point-free geometry, ovals, and half-planes

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