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- Title
A Calculus of Regions Respecting Both Measure and Topology.
- Authors
Lando, Tamar; Scott, Dana
- Abstract
Say that space is 'gunky' if every part of space has a proper part. Traditional theories of gunk, dating back to the work of Whitehead in the early part of last century, modeled space in the Boolean algebra of regular closed (or regular open) subsets of Euclidean space. More recently a complaint was brought against that tradition in Arntzenius (2008) and Russell (2008): Lebesgue measure is not even finitely additive over the algebra, and there is no countably additive measure on the algebra. Arntzenius advocated modeling gunk in measure algebras instead—in particular, in the algebra of Borel subsets of Euclidean space, modulo sets of Lebesgue measure zero. But while this algebra carries a natural, countably additive measure, it has some unattractive topological features. In this paper, we show how to construct a model of gunk that has both nice rudimentary measure-theoretic and topological properties. We then show that in modeling gunk in this way we can distinguish between finite dimensions, and that nothing in lost in terms of our ability to identify points as locations in space.
- Subjects
CALCULUS; TOPOLOGY; LEBESGUE measure; BOREL subsets; BOOLEAN algebra
- Publication
Journal of Philosophical Logic, 2019, Vol 48, Issue 5, p825
- ISSN
0022-3611
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s10992-018-9496-8