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Re: Let's you & him fight

Subject: Re: Let's you & him fight
From: Daryl McCullough
Date: 5 Aug 2006 07:07:07 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
Aatu Koskensilta says...

>Quite so. In fact set theoretical truth is definable in NBG: there is a 
>formula True(x) such that NBG proves for every formula A that True('A') 
><--> A. NBG does not prove all the usual clauses in the usual inductive 
>definition for truth, however. I gave an axiomatization of NBG based on 
>this observation some time ago here in sci.logic.
>
>And of course, from the observation that ZFC* is acceptable on basis of 
>our picture of the world of sets, we see that ZFC** with a second truth 
>predicate covering also formulas involving the truth predicate of ZFC* 
>is also acceptable, and similarly for ZFC*** and so forth.

How do this sequence of theories fit in with Morse-Kelly set theory?
I'm pretty sure that ZFC* is still a subtheory of MK, but I'm not
sure about ZFC**.

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Daryl McCullough
Ithaca, NY


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