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first-order and higher-order logic, model theory, set theory, proof theory, computability theory, formal languages, definability, interplay of syntax and semantics, constructive logic, intuitionism, philosophical logic, modal logic, completeness, Gödel incompleteness, decidability, undecidability, theories of truth, truth revision, consistency.

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Internal logic of the topos of simplicial sets

I am looking for a closed statement (i.e. not depending on any parameter objects) which is true in the internal logic of the topos of simplicial sets, but is not an intuitionistic tautology. Ideally, …
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Can ZFC → NBG be iterated?

von Neumann-Bernays-Gödel set theory (NBG) is a conservative extension of ZFC which contains "classes" (such as the class of all sets) as basic objects. "Conservative" means that anything provable in …
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Mathematics without the principle of unique choice

The principle of unique choice (PUC), also called the principle of function comprehension, says that if $R$ is a relation between two sets $A,B$, and for every $x\in A$ there exists a unique $y\in B$ …
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When does collection imply replacement?

In ordinary membership-based set theory, the axiom schema of replacement states that if $\phi$ is a first-order formula, and $A$ is a set such that for any $x\in A$ there exists a unique $y$ such that …
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Approximate intermediate value theorem in pure constructive mathematics

The ordinary intermediate value theorem (IVT) is not provable in constructive mathematics. To show this, one can construct a Brouwerian "weak counterexample" and also promote it to a precise counterm …
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Can Vopenka's principle be violated definably?

One form of Vopenka's principle (a large cardinal axiom) states that no locally presentable category contains a full subcategory which is large (= a proper class) and discrete (= contains no nonidenti …
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Cauchy real numbers with and without modulus

In constructive mathematics there are many possible inequivalent definitions of real numbers. The greatest variety seems to be in Dedekind-style approaches: in addition to "the" Dedekind real numbers …
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A rigid type of structure that can be put on every set?

Call a type of structure rigid if any automorphism of such a structure is an identity. (This is a bit different from some other uses of the word, but hopefully I'll be forgiven.) For example, well-o …
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Ordinal realizability vs the constructible universe

Koepke's paper Turing Computations on Ordinals defines a notion of "ordinal computability" using Turing machines with a tape the length of Ord and that can run for Ord-many steps, and shows that a set …
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Intuitionistic Lowenheim-Skolem?

Is there a version of the Löwenheim-Skolem theorem in intuitionistic logic? I'm particularly interested in the "downward" form. The standard proof I know uses the Tarski-Vaught test for elementary s …
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Is Girard's LU just an embedding of classical and intuitionistic logic into linear logic?

This question is about Girard's system LU, presented in his paper On the unity of logic. Girard starts by giving a "modal" sequent calculus with two zones of both hypotheses and consequents, $\Gamma; …
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A well-founded relation on lists

Let $A$ be a set equipped with a well-founded relation $<$, let $LA$ be the set of finite lists of elements of $A$, and define a relation $\prec$ on $LA$ such that $\ell \prec m$ if $\ell$ is obtained …
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Is set-induction relatively consistent?

One way to state the axiom of foundation is that the $\in$ relation on any transitive set is well-founded in the following sense: A relation $(X,\prec)$ is well-founded if for any subset $S\subseteq …
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Axiom of class collection

One version of the Axiom of Collection says that any surjection $A\to B$ from a class $A$ to a set $B$ is factored through by some surjection $C\to B$ where $C$ is a set. Note that assuming $B$ is a …
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constructive Serre classes

A Serre class (of abelian groups) is a class of abelian groups closed under subgroups, quotients, and extensions. For instance, finitely generated groups and finite groups are both Serre classes. Ho …
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