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Bisimulations of potentialist systems

Logic 2022-06-23 v2

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 TT, the system Mod(T)\mathrm{Mod}(T) consists of all models of TT. We can then take either all embeddings, or all substructure inclusions, between these models. I show that these two ways of defining Mod(T)\mathrm{Mod}(T) 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

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