An approach to the modelling of the physical continuum

British Journal for the Philosophy of Science 37 (4):395-404 (1986)
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We describe a way of constructing models for the continuum which does not require an underlying structure of points. With a condition of spatial homogeneity the models have the mathematical structure of a sheaf

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10.1093/bjps/37.4.395

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