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==Note 22==

==Note 22==

Let us summarize, in rough but intuitive terms, the outlook on differential logic that we have reached so far.  We've been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse, <math>X^\circ,</math> to considering a larger universe of discourse, <math>\operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>

Let us summarize, in rough but intuitive terms, the outlook on differential logic that we have reached so far.  We've been considering a class of operators on universes of discourse, each of which takes us from considering one universe of discourse, <math>X^\circ,</math> to considering a larger universe of discourse, <math>\operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>  An operator <math>\operatorname{W}</math> of this general type, namely,<math>\operatorname{W} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ,</math> acts on each proposition <math>f : X \to \mathbb{B}</math> of the source universe <math>X^\circ</math> to produce a proposition <math>\operatorname{W}f : \operatorname{E}X \to \mathbb{B}</math> of the target universe <math>\operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>

An operator <math>\operatorname{W}</math> of this general type, namely,<math>\operatorname{W} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ,</math> acts on each proposition <math>f : X \to \mathbb{B}</math> of the source universe <math>X^\circ</math> to produce a proposition <math>\operatorname{W}f : \operatorname{E}X \to \mathbb{B}</math> of the target universe <math>\operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>

The two main operators that we've examined so far are the enlargement or shift operator <math>\operatorname{E} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ</math> and the difference operator <math>\operatorname{D} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>  The operators <math>\operatorname{E}</math> and <math>\operatorname{D}</math> act on propositions in <math>X^\circ,</math> that is, propositions of the form <math>f : X \to \mathbb{B}</math> that are said to be ''about'' the subject matter of <math>X,\!</math> and they produce extended propositions of the forms <math>\operatorname{E}f, \operatorname{D}f : \operatorname{E}X \to \mathbb{B},</math> propositions whose extended sets of variables allow them to be read as being about specified collections of changes that conceivably occur in <math>X.\!</math>

The two main operators that we have worked with up to this point are the enlargement or shift operator <math>\operatorname{E} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ</math> and the difference operator <math>\operatorname{D} : X^\circ \to \operatorname{E}X^\circ.</math>

Here we have need of visual representations, some array of concrete pictures to anchor our more earthy intuitions and to help us keep our wits about us before we try to climb any higher into the ever more rarefied air of abstractions.

 

<math>\operatorname{E}</math> and <math>\operatorname{D}</math> act on propositions in <math>X^\circ,</math> that is, propositions of the form <math>f : X \to \mathbb{B}</math> that are said to be ''about'' the subject matter of <math>X,\!</math> and they produce extended propositions of the forms <math>\operatorname{E}f, \operatorname{D}f : \operatorname{E}X \to \mathbb{B},</math> propositions whose extended sets of variables allow them to be read as being about specified collections of changes that conceivably occur in <math>X.\!</math>

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One good picture comes to us by way of the "field" concept.

One good picture comes to us by way of the "field" concept.

Given a space X, a "field" of a specified type Y over X is

Given a space X, a "field" of a specified type Y over X is