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Predicative Fragments of Frege Arithmetic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Øystein Linnebo
Øystein Linnebo*
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Department of Philosophy, University of Oslo, Postboks 1020 Blindern, N-0315 Oslo, NorwayE-mail: , [email protected]
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Abstract

Frege Arithmetic (FA) is the second-order theory whose sole non-logical axiom is Hume's Principle, which says that the number of Fs is identical to the number of Gs if and only if the Fs and the Gs can be one-to-one correlated. According to Frege's Theorem, FA and some natural definitions imply all of second-order Peano Arithmetic. This paper distinguishes two dimensions of impredicativity involved in FA—one having to do with Hume's Principle, the other, with the underlying second-order logic—and investigates how much of Frege's Theorem goes through in various partially predicative fragments of FA. Theorem 1 shows that almost everything goes through, the most important exception being the axiom that every natural number has a successor. Theorem 2 shows that the Successor Axiom cannot be proved in the theories that are predicative in either dimension.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 10 , Issue 2 , June 2004 , pp. 153 - 174
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2004

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