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- From: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
- Newsgroups: sci.math
- Subject: Re: Non-Standard Analysis and philosophy
- Date: 21 Jan 1993 22:53:44 GMT
- Organization: Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH (USA)
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- References: <1993Jan21.203027.27202@ulrik.uio.no> <1993Jan21.180359.21766@ulrik.uio.no> <TORKEL.93Jan21204806@bast.sics.se>
- Reply-To: cxm7@po.CWRU.Edu (Colin Mclarty)
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- In a previous article, solan@smaug.uio.no (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) says:
-
- >In article <TORKEL.93Jan21204806@bast.sics.se>, torkel@sics.se (Torkel
- >Franzen) writes:
- >|> In article <1993Jan21.180359.21766@ulrik.uio.no> solan@smaug.uio.no
- >|> (Svein Olav G. Nyberg) writes:
- >|>
- >|> >Under which philosophies of mathematics is non-standard
- >|> >analysis possible, and to what extent?
- >|>
- >|> Your question makes no apparent sense. Non-standard analysis is simply a
- >|> field of mathematics that exists, hence is possible.
- >
- >I am serious, Torkel. Surely finitist mathematicians will not
- >allow for infinitely large integers. And rumors have it that
- >Martin-Lof's attempts to fit non-standard analysis into the
- >Constructive Mathematics programme (mathematics as possible
- >under a certain philosophy of mathematics) yields a weaker sort
- >of non-standard analysis than the standard non-standard analysis.
- >
- >My question stands.
- >
- >
- >Solan
- >
-
- Okay. Every philosophy of mathematics that allows standard
- analysis in its usual form allows non-standard analysis in its usual
- form. Every philosophy of mathematics that allows standard analysis
- only in weakened forms will allow non-standard analysis only in weakened
- forms.
-
- Any philosophy of mathematics that allows the compactness theorem
- for first order logic (and thus for axiomatized higher order logic) has
- an easy proof that standard and non-standard analysis are equally
- possible.
-
- Colin McLarty
-