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Is there a compendium of the consistency strength between the most important formal theories?
Preliminar Notions:
A formal system is a tuple $(\Sigma,G,A,R)$ where $\Sigma$ is an alphabet (set of symbols), $G$ is a formal grammar on $\Sigma$ that generates a formal language $L$ (set of well ...
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Can $GPK^{+}_{\infty}$ + $AC_{WF}$ prove "$ZFC$ proves that the class of ordinals is not weakly compact for definable classes?
Consider the topological set theory $GPK^{+}_{\infty}$ +$AC_{WF}$, where $GPK^{+}_{\infty}$ is defined as follows (this from Olivier Esser's papers, "An Interpretation of the Zermelo-Fraenkel Set ...
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Are there natural examples of mathematical statements which follow from consistency statements?
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One of the methods for strictly extending a theory $T$ (which is axiomatizable and consistent, and includes enough arithmetic) is adding the sentence expressing the consistency of $T$ ( $...