TOLERANCE GEOMETRY,
Abstract
In his work on visual perception, Zeeman points out that any model of perception must take account of the fact that one cannot distinguish between points that are sufficiently close. A similar observation has been made for choice behavior by Luce. This observation suggests that in order to study perception and9choice behavior, it is necessary to replace classical geometrical primitives, such as betweeness, straightness, perpendicularity, parallelism, etc., with more general notions, obtained from the classical ones by substituting closeness for identity. The term tolerance geometry is used for any geometry whose primitives are obtained by such a perturbation. This paper gives axioms for tolerance geometry on the line, where the classical ternary relation of betweeness is replaced by the tolerance relation of epsilon-betweeness. In particular, these axioms are stated in terms of a pair (A, B) where A is a finite set and B is a ternary relation on A (epsilon-betweeness). (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1970
- Accession Number
- AD0710642
Entities
People
- Fred S. Roberts
Organizations
- RAND Corporation