Chunk and permeate iii

the dirac delta function

Richard Benham

Chris Mortensen

Graham Priest

University of Melbourne

pp. 3057-3062

in: Otávio Bueno, Peter Vickers (eds), Is science inconsistent?, Synthese 191 (13), 2014.

Abstract

Dirac’s treatment of his well known Delta function was apparently inconsistent. We show how to reconstruct his reasoning using the inconsistency-tolerant technique of Chunk and Permeate. In passing we take note of limitations and developments of that technique.