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Handbook of Research on Global Media’s Preternatural Influence on Global Technological Singularity, Culture, and Government
In mathematics, this is the representation of a number beyond a specific assignable quantity; a number that cannot be counted. The symbol is ¥.
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Transreal Numbers and Sentient Logic
Walter Gomide (Universidade Federal de Mato Grosso, Brazil)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8884-0.ch013
Abstract
This chapter introduces the basic concepts of Total Semantics based on transreal numbers, a new field of mathematics in which division of zero is allowed. In the logic created from the transreals, it is possible to evaluate non-propositional objects such as sensations or feelings as having truth value. By covering all semantical possibility, transreal semantics enables a “poetical discourse” based on images and an immediate intuition of reality, an intuition that is both sensory and mental. This describes, and defines, a new type of epistemic operation—a sentient one—and leads to the possibility of developing a formal epistemic logic that assesses how we obtain or acquire knowledge from the perspective of sentient agents.
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