Surfaces and Superposition

Foreword
Patrick Suppes
Preface
I: Preliminaries
1. Characteristics of the Approach
2. The Concrete Superficial
3. The Logic of Constructability
4. Remarks on Physical Abstraction
II: Surface Topologies
5. Overview
6. Points on Surfaces
7. Towards a Topology of Physical Surfaces
8. Boundaries
9. Surface Dimensionality
10. Aspects of a Platonic Account of Linearity
III: Superposition
11. The Method of Superposition and Its Problems
12. Phenomena and Topology of Superposition
13. Possible Superpositions
14. Rigidity
15. Rigid Frames and Their Spaces
IV: Miscellaneous Topics
16. Connections with Physical Theory
17. Surface Feature, Sense Datum, and Psychology
18. Objectives, Theses, and Objections
References
Index