On the logical structure of choice and bar induction principles
Abstract
We develop an approach to choice principles and their contrapositive bar-induction principles as extensionality schemes connecting an ''intensional'' or ''effective'' view of respectively ill-and well-foundedness properties to an ''extensional'' or ''ideal'' view of these properties. After classifying and analysing the relations between different intensional definitions of ill-foundedness and well-foundedness, we introduce, for a domain , a codomain and a ''filter'' on finite approximations of functions from to , a generalised form GDC of the axiom of dependent choice and dually a generalised bar induction principle GBI such that: - GDC intuitionistically captures the strength of the general axiom of choice expressed as when is a filter that derives point-wise from a relation on without introducing further constraints, the Boolean Prime Filter Theorem / Ultrafilter Theorem if is the two-element set (for a constructive definition of prime filter), the axiom of dependent choice if , Weak K{\"o}nig's Lemma if and (up to weak classical reasoning) - GBI intuitionistically captures the strength of G{\"o}del's completeness theorem in the form validity implies provability for entailment relations if , bar induction when , the Weak Fan Theorem when and . Contrastingly, even though GDC and GBI smoothly capture several variants of choice and bar induction, some instances are inconsistent, e.g. when is and is .
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@article{arxiv.2105.08951,
title = {On the logical structure of choice and bar induction principles},
author = {Nuria Brede and Hugo Herbelin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.08951},
year = {2026}
}
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LICS 2021 - 36th Annual Symposium on Logic in Computer Science, Jun 2021, Rome / Virtual, Italy