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Elements of Librationism

Logic 2015-08-05 v8

Abstract

We develop librationism, {\pounds}, and clarify some mathematical and philosophical matters which relate to the particular manner in which it deals with the paradoxes and to its usefulness as a foundation for mathematics and type free reasoning. We isolate a domination operation which unlike the power set operation is not paradoxical and which helps us isolate the definable real numbers. We show that {\pounds} plus a postulate and a postulation interprets ZFC; our strategy for achieving this involves extending an interpretation by Harvey Friedman of ZF in a system weaker than ZF with collection minus extensionality and a novel notion of librationist capturelibrationist \ capture which entails collection, specification and choice in desired contexts.

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@article{arxiv.1407.3877,
  title  = {Elements of Librationism},
  author = {Frode Bjørdal},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.3877},
  year   = {2015}
}

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33 pages

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