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Reflections on the Axiomatic Approach to Continuity

In: Axiomatic Thinking II

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  • John L. Bell

    (University of Western Ontario)

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In Hilbert’s paper “Axiomatic Thinking”—the published version of his 1917 Zürich talk - he touches on the axiomatic treatment of continuity and, as he puts it, “the dependence of the propositions of a field of knowledge on the axiom of continuity”. By the “axiom of continuity”, Hilbert seems to mean a number of things. In this paper I speculate on the various meanings Hilbert may have ascribed to the term. I focus in particular on interpreting the “axiom of continuity” as the central principal of Synthetic Differential Geometry that all real functions are smooth.

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  • John L. Bell, 2022. "Reflections on the Axiomatic Approach to Continuity," Springer Books, in: Fernando Ferreira & Reinhard Kahle & Giovanni Sommaruga (ed.), Axiomatic Thinking II, chapter 0, pages 131-143, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-3-030-77799-9_5
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-77799-9_5
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