Bisimulations of potentialist systems
Abstract
A potentialist system is a first-order Kripke model based on embeddings. I define the notion of bisimulation for these systems, and provide a number of examples. Given a first-order theory , the system consists of all models of . We can then take either all embeddings, or all substructure inclusions, between these models. I show that these two ways of defining are bitotally bisimilar. Next, I relate the notion of bisimulation to a generalisation of the Ehrenfeucht-Fra\"is\'e game, and use this to show the equivalence of the existence of a bisimulation with elementary equivalence with respect to an infinitary language. Finally, I consider the question of when a potentialist system is bitotally bisimilar to a system containing set-many models, providing too different sufficient conditions.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2206.10359,
title = {Bisimulations of potentialist systems},
author = {Sam Adam-Day},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10359},
year = {2022}
}
Comments
22 pages, 4 figures