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- noun Lack of
gaps ;continuity .
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One way to extend the notion of gappiness (and gaplessness) to informal proofs is via the notion of a basic mathematical inference, in other words an inference that is “accepted by the mathematical community as usable in proof without any further need of argument” (Fallis 2003, 49).
Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009
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On the other hand, despite the above definition only working for formal proofs, gaplessness and formality do not always go together.
Non-Deductive Methods in Mathematics Baker, Alan 2009
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In other words, the only way you can get from matter to life or ape to man is because of the very gaplessness of God.
One Cosmos 2008
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Rather, precisely the opposite: God is a God of the gaplessness, specifically, the lack of any real gap between matter and life, life and mind, mind and spirit, and spirit and God.
One Cosmos 2008
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