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On the consistency of an impredicative subsystem of Quine's NF

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Marcel Crabbé
Marcel Crabbé*
Affiliation:
Université de Louvain (U.C.L.), Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium
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NFP is the predicative fragment of NF. In this system we do not allow a set to exist if it cannot be defined without using quantifiers ranging over its type or parameters of a higher type. NFI is a less restrictive fragment located between NFP and NF.

We show that NFP is really weaker than NFI; similarly, NFI is weaker than NF. This result will be obtained in the following manner: on the one hand, we will show that NFP can be proved consistent in elementary arithmetic and that second order arithmetic is interpretable in NFI; on the other hand, we will prove the consistency of NFI in third order arithmetic, which is contained in NF.

The paper is divided in four sections. In §1, we define the concepts needed and collect a few results together in such a way that they will be ready for later use. In §2, we will present a model-theoretic (quick) proof of the consistency of NFI (and thus of NFP). The proof will be chosen (it is not the quickest!) so as to motivate in a natural manner the details of the proof-theoretical version of it that will be presented in §3. §4 will be devoted to the axiom of infinity in NFP and NFI.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 47 , Issue 1 , March 1982 , pp. 131 - 136
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1982

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