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In [[mathematics]], '''point-free geometry''' is a [[geometry]] whose primitive [[ontology|ontological]] notion is ''region'' rather than [[point (geometry)|point]]. Two [[axiomatic system]]s are set out below, one grounded in [[mereology]], the other in [[mereotopology]] and known as ''connection theory''. A point can mark a space or objects. | |||
==Motivation== | |||
Point-free geometry was first formulated in [[Alfred North Whitehead|Whitehead]] (1919, 1920), not as a theory of [[geometry]] or of [[spacetime]], but of "events" and of an "extension relation" between events. Whitehead's purposes were as much philosophical as scientific and mathematical.<ref>See Kneebone (1963), chpt. 13.5, for a gentle introduction to Whitehead's theory. Also see Lucas (2000), chpt. 10.</ref> | |||
Whitehead did not set out his theories in a manner that would satisfy present-day canons of formality. The two formal [[first order theory|first order theories]] described in this entry were devised by others in order to clarify and refine Whitehead's theories. The [[domain of discourse|domain]] for both theories consists of "regions." All unquantified variables in this entry should be taken as tacitly [[quantifier|universally quantified]]; hence all axioms should be taken as universal closures. No axiom requires more than three [[quantification|quantified variables]]; hence a translation of first order theories into [[relation algebra]] is possible. Each set of axioms has but four [[existential quantifier]]s. | |||
==Inclusion-based point-free geometry== | |||
The axioms '''G1-G7''' are, but for numbering, those of Def. 2.1 in Gerla and Miranda (2008). The identifiers of the form '''WPn''', included in the verbal description of each axiom, refer to the corresponding axiom in Simons (1987: 83). | |||
= | The fundamental primitive [[binary relation]] is ''Inclusion'', denoted by [[infix]] "≤". (''Inclusion'' corresponds to the binary ''Parthood'' relation that is a standard feature of all mereological theories.) The intuitive meaning of ''x''≤''y'' is "''x'' is part of ''y''." Assuming that [[identity function|identity]], denoted by infix "=", is part of the background logic, the [[binary relation]] ''Proper Part'', denoted by infix "<", is defined as: | ||
<math> x<y \leftrightarrow (x\le y \and x \not = y).</math> | |||
= | The axioms are: | ||
*Inclusion [[partial order|partially orders]] the [[domain of discourse|domain]]. | |||
:'''G1.''' <math>x\le x.</math> ([[reflexive relation|reflexive]]) | |||
:'''G2.''' <math>(x\le z \and z\le y) \rightarrow x\le y.</math> ([[transitive relation|transitive]]) '''WP4'''. | |||
:'''G3.''' <math>(x\le y \and y\le x) \rightarrow x = y.</math> ([[anti-symmetric relation|anti-symmetric]]) | |||
*Given any two regions, there exists a region that includes both of them. '''WP6'''. | |||
:'''G4.''' <math>\exists z[x\le z\and y\le z].</math> | |||
*Proper Part [[dense order|densely orders]] the [[domain of discourse|domain]]. '''WP5'''. | |||
:'''G5.''' <math>x<y\rightarrow\exists z [x<z<y].</math> | |||
*Both [[atomic (order theory)|atomic regions]] and a [[mereology|universal region]] do not exist. Hence the [[domain of discourse|domain]] has neither an upper nor a lower bound. '''WP2'''. | |||
:'''G6.''' <math>\exists yz[y<x \and x<z].</math> | |||
* Proper Parts Principle. If all the proper parts of ''x'' are proper parts of ''y'', then ''x'' is included in ''y''. '''WP3'''. | |||
:'''G7.''' <math>\forall z[z<x \rightarrow z<y] \rightarrow x\le y.</math> | |||
A [[model theory|model]] of '''G1–G7''' is an ''inclusion space''. | |||
'''Definition''' (Gerla and Miranda 2008: Def. 4.1). Given some inclusion space, an '''abstractive class''' is a class ''G'' of regions such that ''G'' is [[total order|totally ordered]] by Inclusion. Moreover, there does not exist a region included in all of the regions included in ''G''. | |||
Intuitively, an abstractive class defines a geometrical entity whose dimensionality is less than that of the inclusion space. For example, if the inclusion space is the [[Euclidean plane]], then the corresponding abstractive classes are [[point (geometry)|point]]s and [[line (geometry)|line]]s. | |||
Inclusion-based point-free geometry (henceforth "point-free geometry") is essentially an axiomatization of Simons's (1987: 83) system '''W.''' In turn, '''W''' formalizes a theory in Whitehead (1919) whose axioms are not made explicit. Point-free geometry is '''W''' with this defect repaired. Simons (1987) did not repair this defect, instead proposing in a footnote that the reader do so as an exercise. The primitive relation of '''W''' is Proper Part, a [[strict partial order]]. The theory<ref>Kneebone (1963), p. 346.</ref> of Whitehead (1919) has a single primitive binary relation ''K'' defined as ''xKy'' ↔ ''y''<''x''. Hence ''K'' is the [[inverse relation|converse]] of Proper Part. Simons's '''WP1''' asserts that Proper Part is [[irreflexive]] and so corresponds to '''G1'''. '''G3''' establishes that inclusion, unlike Proper Part, is [[anti-symmetric]]. | |||
Point-free geometry is closely related to a [[List of first-order theories|dense linear order]] '''D''', whose axioms are '''G1-3''', '''G5''', and the totality axiom <math> x \le y \or y \le x.</math><ref>Also see Stoll, R. R., 1963. ''Set Theory and Logic''. Dover reprint, 1979. P. 423.</ref> Hence inclusion-based point-free geometry would be a proper extension of '''D''' (namely '''D'''∪{'''G4''', '''G6''', '''G7'''}), were it not that the '''D''' relation "≤" is a [[total order]]. | |||
==Connection theory== | |||
In his 1929 ''[[Process and Reality]]'', [[A. N. Whitehead]] proposed a different approach, one inspired by De Laguna (1922). Whitehead took as primitive the [[topological]] notion of "contact" between two regions, resulting in a primitive "connection relation" between events. Connection theory '''C''' is a [[first order theory]] that distills the first 12 of the 31 assumptions in chpt. 2 of ''[[Process and Reality]]'' into 6 axioms, '''C1-C6'''. '''C''' is a proper fragment of the theories proposed in Clarke (1981), who noted their [[mereology|mereological]] character. Theories that, like '''C''', feature both inclusion and [[topology|topological]] primitives, are called [[mereotopology|mereotopologies]]. | |||
'''C''' has one primitive [[relation (mathematics)|relation]], binary "connection," denoted by the [[prefix]]ed [[Predicate (mathematical logic)|predicate letter]] ''C''. That ''x'' is included in ''y'' can now be defined as ''x''≤''y'' ↔ ∀z[''Czx''→''Czy'']. Unlike the case with inclusion spaces, connection theory enables defining "non-tangential" inclusion,<ref>Presumably this is Casati and Varzi's (1999) "Internal Part" predicate, IP''xy'' ↔ (x≤y)∧(C''zx''→∃''v''[''v''≤''z'' ∧ ''v''≤''y'']. This definition combines their (4.8) and (3.1).</ref> a total order that enables the construction of abstractive classes. Gerla and Miranda (2008) argue that only thus can mereotopology unambiguously define a [[Point (geometry)|point]]. | |||
The axioms '''C1-C6''' below are, but for numbering, those of Def. 3.1 in Gerla and Miranda (2008). | |||
*''C'' is [[reflexive relation|reflexive]]. '''C.1.''' | |||
:'''C1. '''<math> \ Cxx.</math> | |||
*''C'' is [[symmetric]]. '''C.2.''' | |||
:'''C2.''' <math>Cxy\rightarrow Cyx.</math> | |||
*''C'' is [[extensionality|extensional]]. '''C.11.''' | |||
:'''C3.''' <math>\forall z[Czx \leftrightarrow Czy] \rightarrow x = y.</math> | |||
* All regions have proper parts, so that '''C''' is an [[atomic (order theory)|atomless]] theory. '''P.9.''' | |||
:'''C4.''' <math>\exists y[y<x].</math> | |||
*Given any two regions, there is a region connected to both of them. | |||
:'''C5.''' <math>\exists z[Czx\and Czy].</math> | |||
*All regions have at least two unconnected parts. '''C.14.''' | |||
:'''C6.''' <math>\exists yz[(y\le x)\and (z\le x)\and\neg Cyz].</math> | |||
A model of '''C''' is a ''connection space''. | |||
Following the verbal description of each axiom is the identifier of the corresponding axiom in Casati and Varzi (1999). Their system '''SMT''' (''strong mereotopology'') consists of '''C1-C3''', and is essentially due to Clarke (1981).<ref>Grzegorczyk (1960) proposed a similar theory, whose motivation was primarily [[topology|topological]].</ref> Any [[mereotopology]] can be made [[atomic (order theory)|atomless]] by invoking '''C4''', without risking paradox or triviality. Hence '''C''' extends the atomless variant of '''SMT''' by means of the axioms '''C5''' and '''C6''', suggested by chpt. 2 of ''[[Process and Reality]]''. For an advanced and detailed discussion of systems related to '''C''', see Roeper (1997). | |||
Biacino and Gerla (1991) showed that every [[model theory|model]] of Clarke's theory is a [[Boolean algebra (structure)|Boolean algebra]], and models of such algebras cannot distinguish connection from overlap. It is doubtful whether either fact is faithful to Whitehead's intent. | |||
==See also== | |||
*[[Mereology]] | |||
*[[Mereotopology]] | |||
*[[Pointless topology]] | |||
==Footnotes== | |||
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==References== | |||
*Biacino L., and Gerla G., 1991, "[http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.ndjfl/1093635748 Connection Structures,]" ''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic'' 32: 242-47. | |||
<!--*Casati R., Varzi A., 1997, "Spatial Entities" in Oliviero Stock, ed., ''Spatial and Temporal Reasoning''. Kluwer: 73-96.!--> | |||
* Casati, R., and Varzi, A. C., 1999. ''Parts and places: the structures of spatial representation''. MIT Press. | |||
* Clarke, Bowman, 1981, "[http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.ndjfl/1093883455 A calculus of individuals based on 'connection',]" ''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 22'': 204-18. | |||
* ------, 1985, "[http://projecteuclid.org/DPubS/Repository/1.0/Disseminate?view=body&id=pdf_1&handle=euclid.ndjfl/1093870761 Individuals and Points,]" ''Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 26'': 61-75. | |||
*De Laguna, T., 1922, "Point, line and surface as sets of solids," ''The Journal of Philosophy 19'': 449-61. | |||
* Gerla, G., 1995, "[http://www.dmi.unisa.it/people/gerla/www/Down/point-free.pdf Pointless Geometries]" in Buekenhout, F., Kantor, W. eds., ''Handbook of incidence geometry: buildings and foundations''. North-Holland: 1015-31. | |||
*--------, and Miranda A., 2008, "[http://www.dmi.unisa.it/people/gerla/www/ Inclusion and Connection in Whitehead's Point-free Geometry,]" to appear in ''Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought''. | |||
*Gruszczynski R., and Pietruszczak A., 2008, "[http://www.math.ucla.edu/~asl/bsl/1404/1404-002.ps Full development of Tarski's geometry of solids,]" ''Bulletin of Symbolic Logic'' 14:481-540. The paper contains presentation of point-free system of geometry originating from Whitehead's ideas and based on Lesniewski's mereology. It also briefly discusses the relation between point-free and point-based systems of geometry. Basic properties of mereological structures are given as well. | |||
*Grzegorczyk, A., 1960, "Axiomatizability of geometry without points," ''Synthese 12'': 228-235. | |||
*Kneebone, G., 1963. ''Mathematical Logic and the Foundation of Mathematics''. Dover reprint, 2001. | |||
*[[John Lucas (philosopher)|Lucas, J. R.]], 2000. ''Conceptual Roots of Mathematics''. Routledge. Chpt. 10, on "prototopology," discusses Whitehead's systems and is strongly influenced by the unpublished writings of David Bostock. | |||
* Roeper, P., 1997, "Region-Based Topology," ''Journal of Philosophical Logic 26'': 251-309. | |||
* Simons, P., 1987. ''Parts: A Study in Ontology''. Oxford Univ. Press. | |||
* [[A. N. Whitehead|Whitehead, A.N.]], 1916, "La Theorie Relationiste de l'Espace," ''Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale 23'': 423-454. Translated as Hurley, P.J., 1979, "The relational theory of space," ''Philosophy Research Archives 5'': 712-741. | |||
*--------, 1919. ''An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge''. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2nd ed., 1925. | |||
*--------, 1920. ''[http://www.gutenberg.org/files/18835/18835-h/18835-h.htm The Concept of Nature]''. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004 paperback, Prometheus Books. Being the 1919 Tarner Lectures delivered at [[Trinity College, Cambridge|Trinity College]]. | |||
*--------, 1979 (1929). ''[[Process and Reality]]''. Free Press. | |||
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In mathematics, point-free geometry is a geometry whose primitive ontological notion is region rather than point. Two axiomatic systems are set out below, one grounded in mereology, the other in mereotopology and known as connection theory. A point can mark a space or objects.
Motivation
Point-free geometry was first formulated in Whitehead (1919, 1920), not as a theory of geometry or of spacetime, but of "events" and of an "extension relation" between events. Whitehead's purposes were as much philosophical as scientific and mathematical.[1]
Whitehead did not set out his theories in a manner that would satisfy present-day canons of formality. The two formal first order theories described in this entry were devised by others in order to clarify and refine Whitehead's theories. The domain for both theories consists of "regions." All unquantified variables in this entry should be taken as tacitly universally quantified; hence all axioms should be taken as universal closures. No axiom requires more than three quantified variables; hence a translation of first order theories into relation algebra is possible. Each set of axioms has but four existential quantifiers.
Inclusion-based point-free geometry
The axioms G1-G7 are, but for numbering, those of Def. 2.1 in Gerla and Miranda (2008). The identifiers of the form WPn, included in the verbal description of each axiom, refer to the corresponding axiom in Simons (1987: 83).
The fundamental primitive binary relation is Inclusion, denoted by infix "≤". (Inclusion corresponds to the binary Parthood relation that is a standard feature of all mereological theories.) The intuitive meaning of x≤y is "x is part of y." Assuming that identity, denoted by infix "=", is part of the background logic, the binary relation Proper Part, denoted by infix "<", is defined as:
The axioms are:
- Inclusion partially orders the domain.
- G1. (reflexive)
- G2. (transitive) WP4.
- G3. (anti-symmetric)
- Given any two regions, there exists a region that includes both of them. WP6.
- Proper Part densely orders the domain. WP5.
- Both atomic regions and a universal region do not exist. Hence the domain has neither an upper nor a lower bound. WP2.
- Proper Parts Principle. If all the proper parts of x are proper parts of y, then x is included in y. WP3.
A model of G1–G7 is an inclusion space.
Definition (Gerla and Miranda 2008: Def. 4.1). Given some inclusion space, an abstractive class is a class G of regions such that G is totally ordered by Inclusion. Moreover, there does not exist a region included in all of the regions included in G.
Intuitively, an abstractive class defines a geometrical entity whose dimensionality is less than that of the inclusion space. For example, if the inclusion space is the Euclidean plane, then the corresponding abstractive classes are points and lines.
Inclusion-based point-free geometry (henceforth "point-free geometry") is essentially an axiomatization of Simons's (1987: 83) system W. In turn, W formalizes a theory in Whitehead (1919) whose axioms are not made explicit. Point-free geometry is W with this defect repaired. Simons (1987) did not repair this defect, instead proposing in a footnote that the reader do so as an exercise. The primitive relation of W is Proper Part, a strict partial order. The theory[2] of Whitehead (1919) has a single primitive binary relation K defined as xKy ↔ y<x. Hence K is the converse of Proper Part. Simons's WP1 asserts that Proper Part is irreflexive and so corresponds to G1. G3 establishes that inclusion, unlike Proper Part, is anti-symmetric.
Point-free geometry is closely related to a dense linear order D, whose axioms are G1-3, G5, and the totality axiom [3] Hence inclusion-based point-free geometry would be a proper extension of D (namely D∪{G4, G6, G7}), were it not that the D relation "≤" is a total order.
Connection theory
In his 1929 Process and Reality, A. N. Whitehead proposed a different approach, one inspired by De Laguna (1922). Whitehead took as primitive the topological notion of "contact" between two regions, resulting in a primitive "connection relation" between events. Connection theory C is a first order theory that distills the first 12 of the 31 assumptions in chpt. 2 of Process and Reality into 6 axioms, C1-C6. C is a proper fragment of the theories proposed in Clarke (1981), who noted their mereological character. Theories that, like C, feature both inclusion and topological primitives, are called mereotopologies.
C has one primitive relation, binary "connection," denoted by the prefixed predicate letter C. That x is included in y can now be defined as x≤y ↔ ∀z[Czx→Czy]. Unlike the case with inclusion spaces, connection theory enables defining "non-tangential" inclusion,[4] a total order that enables the construction of abstractive classes. Gerla and Miranda (2008) argue that only thus can mereotopology unambiguously define a point.
The axioms C1-C6 below are, but for numbering, those of Def. 3.1 in Gerla and Miranda (2008).
- C is reflexive. C.1.
- C is symmetric. C.2.
- C is extensional. C.11.
- All regions have proper parts, so that C is an atomless theory. P.9.
- Given any two regions, there is a region connected to both of them.
- All regions have at least two unconnected parts. C.14.
A model of C is a connection space.
Following the verbal description of each axiom is the identifier of the corresponding axiom in Casati and Varzi (1999). Their system SMT (strong mereotopology) consists of C1-C3, and is essentially due to Clarke (1981).[5] Any mereotopology can be made atomless by invoking C4, without risking paradox or triviality. Hence C extends the atomless variant of SMT by means of the axioms C5 and C6, suggested by chpt. 2 of Process and Reality. For an advanced and detailed discussion of systems related to C, see Roeper (1997).
Biacino and Gerla (1991) showed that every model of Clarke's theory is a Boolean algebra, and models of such algebras cannot distinguish connection from overlap. It is doubtful whether either fact is faithful to Whitehead's intent.
See also
Footnotes
- ↑ See Kneebone (1963), chpt. 13.5, for a gentle introduction to Whitehead's theory. Also see Lucas (2000), chpt. 10.
- ↑ Kneebone (1963), p. 346.
- ↑ Also see Stoll, R. R., 1963. Set Theory and Logic. Dover reprint, 1979. P. 423.
- ↑ Presumably this is Casati and Varzi's (1999) "Internal Part" predicate, IPxy ↔ (x≤y)∧(Czx→∃v[v≤z ∧ v≤y]. This definition combines their (4.8) and (3.1).
- ↑ Grzegorczyk (1960) proposed a similar theory, whose motivation was primarily topological.
References
- Biacino L., and Gerla G., 1991, "Connection Structures," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 32: 242-47.
- Casati, R., and Varzi, A. C., 1999. Parts and places: the structures of spatial representation. MIT Press.
- Clarke, Bowman, 1981, "A calculus of individuals based on 'connection'," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 22: 204-18.
- ------, 1985, "Individuals and Points," Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 26: 61-75.
- De Laguna, T., 1922, "Point, line and surface as sets of solids," The Journal of Philosophy 19: 449-61.
- Gerla, G., 1995, "Pointless Geometries" in Buekenhout, F., Kantor, W. eds., Handbook of incidence geometry: buildings and foundations. North-Holland: 1015-31.
- --------, and Miranda A., 2008, "Inclusion and Connection in Whitehead's Point-free Geometry," to appear in Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought.
- Gruszczynski R., and Pietruszczak A., 2008, "Full development of Tarski's geometry of solids," Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 14:481-540. The paper contains presentation of point-free system of geometry originating from Whitehead's ideas and based on Lesniewski's mereology. It also briefly discusses the relation between point-free and point-based systems of geometry. Basic properties of mereological structures are given as well.
- Grzegorczyk, A., 1960, "Axiomatizability of geometry without points," Synthese 12: 228-235.
- Kneebone, G., 1963. Mathematical Logic and the Foundation of Mathematics. Dover reprint, 2001.
- Lucas, J. R., 2000. Conceptual Roots of Mathematics. Routledge. Chpt. 10, on "prototopology," discusses Whitehead's systems and is strongly influenced by the unpublished writings of David Bostock.
- Roeper, P., 1997, "Region-Based Topology," Journal of Philosophical Logic 26: 251-309.
- Simons, P., 1987. Parts: A Study in Ontology. Oxford Univ. Press.
- Whitehead, A.N., 1916, "La Theorie Relationiste de l'Espace," Revue de Metaphysique et de Morale 23: 423-454. Translated as Hurley, P.J., 1979, "The relational theory of space," Philosophy Research Archives 5: 712-741.
- --------, 1919. An Enquiry Concerning the Principles of Natural Knowledge. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2nd ed., 1925.
- --------, 1920. The Concept of Nature. Cambridge Univ. Press. 2004 paperback, Prometheus Books. Being the 1919 Tarner Lectures delivered at Trinity College.
- --------, 1979 (1929). Process and Reality. Free Press.