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Rich doctrines and Henkin's Theorem

Category Theory 2024-07-17 v2 Logic

Abstract

We find a possible interpretation of Henkin's Theorem in the language of existential implicational doctrines. Under some smallness assumption, starting from an implicational existential doctrine, with non-trivial fibers, we construct a new doctrine which is rich -- meaning that for every formula φ(x)\varphi(x) there is a constant cc such that xφ(x)\exists x\varphi(x) has the same truth-value of φ(c)\varphi(c) -- and consistent. To obtain this result, we add a suitable amount of constants and axioms to the starting doctrine. We then show that a rich consistent doctrine admits an appropriate morphism towards the doctrine of subsets -- a model. Henkin's Theorem for doctrines follows from these two results, modeling our proof on the main lines of the original theorem.

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@article{arxiv.2310.08374,
  title  = {Rich doctrines and Henkin's Theorem},
  author = {Francesca Guffanti},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2310.08374},
  year   = {2024}
}

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