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Our understanding about things is conceptual. By stating that we reason about objects, it is in fact not the objects but concepts referring to them that we manipulate. Now, so long just as we acknowledge infinitely extending notions such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Ryuta Arisaka

The standard axioms of set theory, the Zermelo-Fraenkel axioms (ZFC), do not suffice to answer all questions in mathematics. While this follows abstractly from Kurt G\"odel's famous incompleteness theorems, we nowadays know numerous…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Sandra Müller

We distinguish finitarily between algorithmic verifiability, and algorithmic computability, to show that Goedel's 'formally' unprovable, but 'numeral-wise' provable, arithmetical proposition [(Ax)R(x)] can be finitarily evidenced as:…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-19 Bhupinder Singh Anand

As mathematical induction is applied to prove statements on natural numbers, {\it continuous induction} (or, {\it real induction}) is a tool to prove some statements in real analysis.(Although, this comparison is somehow an overstatement.)…

Logic · Mathematics 2017-03-17 Jafar S. Eivazloo

We present a simpler way than usual to deduce the completeness theorem for the second-oder classical logic from the first-order one. We also extend our method to the case of second-order intuitionistic logic.

Logic · Mathematics 2009-05-07 Karim Nour , Christophe Raffalli

Many recent writers in the philosophy of mathematics have put great weight on the relative categoricity of the traditional axiomatizations of our foundational theories of arithmetic and set theory (\cite{Parsons1990a}, \cite{Parsons2008}…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-09-02 Sean Walsh , Sean Ebels-Duggan

We study L\"owenheim-Skolem and Omitting Types theorems in Transition Algebra, a logical system obtained by enhancing many sorted first-order logic with features from dynamic logic. The sentences we consider include compositions, unions,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Go Hashimoto , Daniel Găină

The persisting gap between the formal and the informal mathematics is due to an inadequate notion of mathematical theory behind the current formalization techniques. I mean the (informal) notion of axiomatic theory according to which a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2011-09-21 Andrei Rodin

We consider the long-standing question of whether every regular LB-space is complete. This problem has been open since the 1950s and originates in Grothendieck's early work in functional analysis. Rather than seeking a direct proof or…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Sven-Ake Wegner

In this paper, we provide a complete classification for the first-order Goedel logics concerning the property that the formulas admit logically equivalent prenex normal forms. We show that the only first-order Goedel logics that admit such…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-25 Matthias Baaz , Mariami Gamsakhurdia

Any system based on axioms is incomplete because the axioms cannot be proven from the system, just believed. But one system can be less-incomplete than other. Neutrosophy is less-incomplete than many other systems because it contains them.…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Carlos Gershenson

The predicate complementary to the well-known Godel's provability predicate is defined. From its recursiveness new consequences concerning the incompleteness argumentation are drawn and extended to new results of consistency, completeness…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Paola Cattabriga

In this article we present and describe a notion of "logical perfection". We extract the notion of "perfection" from the contemporary logical concept of categoricity. Categoricity (in power) has become in the past half century a main driver…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-11-04 John Alexander Cruz Morales , Andrés Villaveces , Boris Zilber

I'll discuss how Goedel's paradox "This statement is false/unprovable" yields his famous result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning. I'll contrast that with my work, which is based on the paradox of "The first uninteresting positive whole…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2007-05-23 G. J. Chaitin

Algebraic theories with dependency between sorts form the structural core of Martin-L\"of type theory and similar systems. Their denotational semantics are typically studied using categorical techniques; many different categorical…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Benedikt Ahrens , Peter LeFanu Lumsdaine , Paige Randall North

Our main result (Theorem A) shows the incompleteness of any consistent sequential theory T formulated in a finite language such that T is axiomatized by a collection of sentences of bounded quantifier-alternation-depth. Our proof employs an…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-02-19 Ali Enayat , Albert Visser

We use a category-theoretic formulation of Aczel's Fullness Axiom from Constructive Set Theory to derive the local cartesian closure of an exact completion. As an application, we prove that such a formulation is valid in the homotopy…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jacopo Emmenegger

Higher order set theory has been a topic of interest for some time, with recent efforts focused on the strength of second order set theories [KW16]. In this paper we strive to present one 'theory of collections' that allows for a formal…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-24 Alec Rhea

In much discussed work Artemov has recently shown that, for $\mathrm{PA}$, the consistency schema admits a form of uniform verification via selector proofs, despite the unprovability of the corresponding uniform consistency sentence…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Harald Grobner

The recent trend in mathematics is towards a framework of abstract mathematical objects, rather than the more concrete approach of explicitly defining elements which objects were thought to consist of. A natural question to raise is whether…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-12-24 Benjamin Horowitz