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Most accounts of Hermann Weyl's objections to the Dedekind continuum treat them as episodes in the foundations of mathematics. This essay takes a different route. Beginning with Weyl's dissatisfaction with impredicative definitions, it follows a path through intuitionism, Husserlian phenomenology, and Riemannian geometry to ask a broader question: what if continuity is not a completed object but an ongoing achievement?
https://thestoicanchor.substack.com/p/the-problem-of-the-dedekind-cut-in
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Quote of the day: "Ultimately it must turn out that action densities must not be glued together additively. I too, concocted various things, but time and again I sank my head in resignation" 1918 #Einstein in a letter to #Weyl. #GeneralRelativity #Physics