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What is the meaning and proof of Harvey Friedman’s ultrafinite incompleteness sentence?

On page 7 of his paper “Adventures in Incompleteness”, Harvey Friedman states the following: IN ANY LONG ENOUGH SEQUENCE $x_1,...,x_n$ FROM $\{1,2,3\}$, SOME $(x_i,...,x_{2i})$ IS A SUBSEQUENCE OF ...
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What does second order set theory give us that is new?

There is a natural analogy between the theories PA and ZFC. See the linked question by Gro-Tsen here. Peano arithmetic (PA) is a first order approximation to the natural numbers. As is well known, ...
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Can this type theory interpret second order arithmetic?

Language: multi-sorted first order logic with equality and membership, where for each natural $t$ there is a set $x^t$ of sort $t$. Equality "$=$" only occurs between variables of the same ...
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