Indiscernibility

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim Button ◽  
Sean Walsh
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Infinitary Logic ◽  
Identity Of Indiscernibles ◽  
Sheer Number

This chapter explores Leibniz's principle of the Identity of Indiscernibles. Model theory supplies us with the resources to distinguish between many different notions of indiscernibility; we can vary: (a) the primitive ideology (b) the background logic and (c) the grade of discernibility. We use these distinctions to discuss the possibility of singling-out “indiscernibles”. And we then use these to distinctions to explicate Leibniz's famous principle. While model theory allows us to make this principle precise, the sheer number of different precise versions of this principle made available by model theory can serve to mitigate some of the initial excitement of this principle. We round out the chapter with two technical topics: indiscernibility in infinitary logic, and the relation between indiscernibility, orders, and stability.

scholarly journals Strong convergence in finite model theory

2002 ◽  
Vol 67 (3) ◽  
pp. 1083-1092
Author(s):  
Wafik Boulos Lotfallah
Keyword(s):  
Strong Convergence ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Model Theory ◽  
Sample Space ◽  
Finite Model ◽  
Additive Measure ◽  
Infinitary Logic ◽  
Uniform Measure ◽  
The Universe ◽  
New Framework

AbstractIn [9] we introduced a new framework for asymptotic probabilities, in which a σ-additive measure is defined on the sample space of all sequences of finite models, where the universe of , is {1,2,…,n}. In this framework we investigated the strong 0-1 law for sentences, which states that each sentence either holds in eventually almost surely or fails in eventually almost surely.In this paper we define the strong convergence law for formulas, which carries over the ideas of the strong 0-1 law to formulas with free variables, and roughly states that for each formula ϕ(x), the fraction of tuples a in , which satisfy the formula ϕ(x), almost surely has a limit as n tends to infinity.We show that the infinitary logic with finitely many variables has the strong convergence law for formulas for the uniform measure, and further characterize the measures on random graphs for which the strong convergence law holds.

κ-Suslin logic

1978 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 659-666
Author(s):  
Judy Green
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Completeness Theorem ◽  
Infinitary Logic ◽  
Complete Axiomatization ◽  
Standard Notation ◽  
Weak Completeness

An analogue of a theorem of Sierpinski about the classical operation () provides the motivation for studying κ-Suslin logic, an extension of Lκ+ω which is closed under a propositional connective based on (). This theorem is used to obtain a complete axiomatization for κ-Suslin logic and an upper bound on the κ-Suslin accessible ordinals (for κ = ω these results are due to Ellentuck [E]). It also yields a weak completeness theorem which we use to generalize a result of Barwise and Kunen [B-K] and show that the least ordinal not H(κ+) recursive is the least ordinal not κ-Suslin accessible.We assume familiarity with lectures 3, 4 and 10 of Keisler's Model theory for infinitary logic [Ke]. We use standard notation and terminology including the following.Lκ+ω is the logic closed under negation, finite quantification, and conjunction and disjunction over sets of formulas of cardinality at most κ. For κ singular, conjunctions and disjunctions over sets of cardinality κ can be replaced by conjunctions and disjunctions over sets of cardinality less than κ so that we can (and will in §2) assume the formation rules of Lκ+ω allow conjunctions and disjunctions only over sets of cardinality strictly less than κ whenever κ is singular.

scholarly journals A Definability Theorem for First Order Logic

1997 ◽  
Vol 4 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carsten Butz ◽  
Ieke Moerdijk
Keyword(s):  
Boolean Algebra ◽  
Topological Space ◽  
Model Theory ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
First Order Logic ◽  
Infinitary Logic ◽  
First Order ◽  
Definable Subset ◽  
Language L ◽  
The One

In this paper, we will present a definability theorem for first order logic.<br />This theorem is very easy to state, and its proof only uses elementary tools. To explain the theorem, let us first observe that if M is a model of a theory T in a language L, then, clearly, any definable subset S M (i.e., a subset S = {a | M |= phi(a)} defined by some formula phi) is invariant under all<br />automorphisms of M. The same is of course true for subsets of M" defined<br />by formulas with n free variables.<br /> Our theorem states that, if one allows Boolean valued models, the converse holds. More precisely, for any theory T we will construct a Boolean valued model M, in which precisely the T-provable formulas hold, and in which every (Boolean valued) subset which is invariant under all automorphisms of M is definable by a formula of L.<br />Our presentation is entirely selfcontained, and only requires familiarity<br />with the most elementary properties of model theory. In particular, we have added a first section in which we review the basic definitions concerning<br />Boolean valued models.<br />The Boolean algebra used in the construction of the model will be presented concretely as the algebra of closed and open subsets of a topological space X naturally associated with the theory T. The construction of this space is closely related to the one in [1]. In fact, one of the results in that paper could be interpreted as a definability theorem for infinitary logic, using topological rather than Boolean valued models.

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