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Unsharp Values, Domains <strong>and</strong> Topoi 73<br />

Clearly, dcpos with Scott-continuous functions form a category. The<br />

definition of a Scott-continuous function can be extended to posets which are<br />

not dcpos, by carefully modifying the second condition to say ‘for any directed<br />

set S that has a supremum’. The reference to ‘continuity’ is not fortuitous,<br />

asthereistheso-calledScott topology, with respect to which these (<strong>and</strong> only<br />

these) arrows are continuous. The Scott topology will be defined below.<br />

Approximation - continuous posets. The other central notion is sometimes<br />

called approximation. This is captured by the following relation on elements<br />

of P .<br />

Definition 3.4. We say that x approximates y or x is way below y, <strong>and</strong>write<br />

x

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