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8 - Real Analysis

from Part III - Where Are the Paradoxes?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2021

Zach Weber
Affiliation:
University of Otago, New Zealand
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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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  • Real Analysis
  • Zach Weber, University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Book: Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics
  • Online publication: 08 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993135.013
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  • Real Analysis
  • Zach Weber, University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Book: Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics
  • Online publication: 08 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993135.013
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  • Real Analysis
  • Zach Weber, University of Otago, New Zealand
  • Book: Paradoxes and Inconsistent Mathematics
  • Online publication: 08 October 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108993135.013
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