8 - Real Analysis
from Part III - Where Are the Paradoxes?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 08 October 2021
Summary
The target of this chapter is to give some rudiments of(paraconsistent) real analysis, a dissection of the linear continuumas that which has no gaps. Axioms for the reals as a totally orderedcomplete field are given and developed, with philosophicalconsiderations about the nature of points. Focus is on the topologyof the real line, establishing the general principle at stake: thatif a change occurs, it must occur somewhere. This is confirmed atthe intermediate value theorem. Along the way, the (continuous)sorites paradox is “recaptured,” the existence ofinfinitesimal quantities is floated, and a theorem is proved about“splitting” geometric points.
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- Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics , pp. 230 - 255Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021