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SCIENCE STUDIES EVENTS
DEFINABILITY IN PHYSICS
David BenDaniel
Johnson School
Cornell University
March 15, 2005
Tuesday, 12:30pm-2:00pm
Sumwalt College, Room 102
The concept of definability of physical fields in a set-theoretical
foundation will be introduced. A set theory will be proposed in which we
get just enough mathematics to produce a nonlinear sigma model.
Quantization of the model will then be derived from a null postulate and
shown to be necessary and sufficient for definability in the theory.
Examples of the relevance to physics and philosophy of science will be
presented.
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