Finitism in Geometry

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Description: Approaches to geometry that do not presuppose an infinity of points; by Jean-Paul van Bendegem.

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Finitism in Geometry (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy) First published Wed Apr 3, 2002; substantive revision Wed Mar 17, 2010 In our representations of the world, especially in physics, (mathematical) infinities play a crucial role. The continuum of the real numbers, â„œ, as a representation of time or of one-dimensional space is surely the best known example and, by extension, the

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