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- From: holmes@opal.idbsu.edu (Randall Holmes)
- Subject: Re: A note on Modal Logic that has nothing to do with Ikky Sex
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- An additional comment:
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- One expects trouble with Tarski's paradox when expressing the model
- theory of ZFC inside ZFC itself, of course. One can build a language
- inside ZFC which contains constants for all the objects of ZFC, but
- one cannot define satisfaction, and so truth, for sentences of this
- language. One can, of course, add truth for sentences of this
- language as a primitive notion (or reference for terms of this
- language) and state the necessary axioms for it, but this notion of
- truth will not be adequate in turn for sentences of the language
- augmented with the truth predicate. But there is no problem with
- defining truth in any given _model_ of ZFC (such models are sets), so
- this is not really a limitation on the model theory of ZFC in ZFC; it
- reflects the fact that the intended interpretation of ZFC is not the
- theory of a model of ZFC.
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- The opinions expressed | --Sincerely,
- above are not the "official" | M. Randall Holmes
- opinions of any person | Math. Dept., Boise State Univ.
- or institution. | holmes@opal.idbsu.edu
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