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Some notes on plump ordinals

Logic 2026-02-02 v1

Abstract

In this exposition, we attempt to formalise a treatment of Paul Taylor's notion of plump ordinals in weak intuitionistic axiomatic set theories such as IKP. We will explore basic properties of plump ordinals, especially in relation to G\"odel's constructible universe LL and incomparable codings. As a quick application, we explain at the end how plump ordinals can be used to build a Heyting-valued model VHV^\mathbb{H} from a classical VZFCV \vDash \mathrm{ZFC} such that for some arbitrary, fixed xVx \in V we have VHP(xˇ)LV^\mathbb{H} \vDash \mathcal{P}{\left(\check{x}\right)} \in L.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2601.23070,
  title  = {Some notes on plump ordinals},
  author = {Shuwei Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.23070},
  year   = {2026}
}
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