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On the role of the Baire Category Theorem and Dependent Choice in the foundations of logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Robert Goldblatt*
Affiliation:
Mathematics Department, Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand

Abstract

The Principle of Dependent Choice is shown to be equivalent to: the Baire Category Theorem for Čech-complete spaces (or for complete metric spaces); the existence theorem for generic sets of forcing conditions; and a proof-theoretic principle that abstracts the “Henkin method” of proving deductive completeness of logical systems. The Rasiowa-Sikorski Lemma is shown to be equivalent to the conjunction of the Ultrafilter Theorem and the Baire Category Theorem for compact Hausdorff spaces.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1985

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