We consider the quantifier hierarchy of Takahashi [1972] and show how it gives rise to reflection theorems for some large cardinals in ZF, a new natural subtheory of Zermelo's set theory, a potentially useful new reduction of the consistency problem for Quine's NF, and a sharpening of another reduction of this problem due to Boffa.

We re-express a previous general result in a way which seems easier to remember, using the terminology of infinite games. We show how this can be applied to construct recursive linear orderings, showing, for example, that if there is a linear ordering of type τ, then there is a recursive ordering of type ωβ · τ.

It is well known that the following features hold of AR + T under the strong Kleene scheme, regardless of the way the language is Gödel numbered:

1. There exist sentences that are neither paradoxical nor grounded.

2. There are fixed points.

3. In the minimal fixed point the weakly definable sets (i.e., sets definable as {n ∣ A(n) is true in the minimal fixed point}, where A(x) is a formula of AR + T) are precisely the sets.

4. In the minimal fixed point the totally defined sets (sets weakly defined by formulae all of whose instances are true or false) are precisely the sets.

5. The closure ordinal for Kripke's construction of the minimal fixed point is .

In contrast, we show that under the weak Kleene scheme, depending on the way the Gödel numbering is chosen:

1. There may or may not exist nonparadoxical, ungrounded sentences.

2. The number of fixed points may be any positive finite number, ℵ0, or .

3. In the minimal fixed point, the sets that are weakly definable may range from a subclass of the sets 1-1 reducible to the truth set of AR to the sets, including intermediate cases.

4. Similarly, the totally definable sets in the minimal fixed point range from precisely the arithmetical sets up to precisely the sets.

5. The closure ordinal for the construction of the minimal fixed point may be ω, , or any successor limit ordinal in between.

In addition we suggest how one may supplement AR + T with a function symbol interpreted by a certain primitive recursive function so that, irrespective of the choice of the Gödel numbering, the resulting language based on the weak Kleene scheme has the five features noted above for the strong Kleene language.

Articles by two American mathematicians, E. V. Huntington and Oswald Veblen, are discussed as examples of a movement in foundational research in the period 1900–1930 called American postulate theory. This movement also included E. H. Moore, R. L. Moore, C. H. Langford, H. M. Sheffer, C. J. Keyser, and others. The articles discussed exemplify American postulate theorists' standards for axiomatizations of mathematical theories, and their investigations of such axiomatizations with respect to metatheoretic properties such as independence, completeness, and consistency.

There are several areas in recursive algebra and combinatorics in which bounded or recursively bounded -classes have arisen. For our purposes we may define a -class to be a set Path(T) of all infinite paths through a recursive tree T. Here a recursive tree T is just a recursive subset of ω<ω, the set of all finite sequences of the natural numbers ω = {0,1,2,…}, which is closed under initial segments. If the tree T is finitely branching, then we say the -class Path(T) is bounded. If T is highly recursive, i.e., if there exists a partial recursive function f: T→ω such that for each node ηЄ T, f(η) equals the number of immediate successors of η, then we say that the -class Path(T) is recursively bounded (r.b.). For example, Manaster and Rosenstein in [6] studied the effective version of the marriage problem and showed that the set of proper marriages for a recursive society S was always a bounded -class and the set of proper marriages for a highly recursive society was always an r.b. -class. Indeed, Manaster and Rosenstein showed that, in the case of the symmetric marriage problem, any r.b. -class could be represented as the set of symmetric marriages of a highly recursive society S in the sense that given any r.b. Π1-class C there is a society Sc such that there is a natural, effective, degree-preserving 1:1 correspondence between the elements of C and the symmetric marriages of Sc. Jockusch conjectured that the set of marriages of a recursive society can represent any bounded -class and the set of marriages of a highly recursive society can represent any r.b. -class. These conjectures remain open. However, Metakides and Nerode [7] showed that any r.b. -class could be represented by the set of total orderings of a recursive real field and vice versa that the set of total orderings of a recursive real field is always an r.b. -class.

In monomodal logic there are a fair number of high-powered results on completeness covering large classes of modal systems; witness for example Fine [74], [85] and Sahlqvist [75]. Monomodal logic is therefore a well-understood subject in contrast to polymodal logic, where even the most elementary questions concerning completeness, decidability, etc. have been left unanswered. Given that in many applications of modal logic one modality is not sufficient, the lack of general results is acutely felt by the “users” of modal logics, contrary to logicians who might entertain the view that a deep understanding of one modality alone provides enough insight to be able to generalize the results to logics with several modalities. Although this view has its justification, the main results we are going to prove are certainly not of this type, for they require a fundamentally new technique. The results obtained are called transfer theorems in Fine and Schurz [91] and are of the following type. Let L ∌ ⊥ be an independently axiomatizable bimodal logic and L⎕ and L∎ its monomodal fragments. Then L has a property P iff L⎕ and L∎ have P. Properties which will be discussed are completeness, the finite model property, compactness, persistence, interpolation and Halldén-completeness. In our discussion we will prove transfer theorems for the simplest case when there are just two modal operators, but it will be clear that the proof works in the general case as well.

Here we consider some problems concerning regular types. In the first place we consider a strongly minimal set D. One can ask what is the strength of the assumption that D has (full) elimination of imaginaries (namely, every definable set X over D has as canonical parameter some tuple from D). We show that D cannot be locally modular. Nontriviality of D is immediate. However, to exclude the locally modular nontrivial case one has to understand structures of the form G/E, where G is a modular strongly minimal group and E is a definable equivalence relation on G with finite classes. We show that the quotient structure G/E can be obtained in two steps. First quotient by a finite subgroup K of G to obtain a strongly minimal group H. Now let Γ be a finite subgroup of the group Aff(H) of definable affine automorphisms of H (namely maps of the form x → αx + a, where α is a definable automorphism of H and a ∈ H), and quotient H by Γ (namely form the orbit space of H under Γ). It can clearly be arranged that Γ contains no nontrivial subgroup of translations.

In the second place we look at a nontrivial modular regular type p whose pregeometry is actually a geometry. The geometry is then known to be (infinite-dimensional) projective geometry over a division ring F. We ask whether F is definable (internally to p). If F is finite, this is clear. In fact in this case p must have U-rank 1. So we assume F to be infinite. We are only able to show definability of F in the case where F is a field, using some results on 2-transitive subgroups of PGL [V]. Moreover in the superstable case we also observe that p is isolated.

Let π be a set of primes. We will call a group π-separated if it can be decomposed as a central product of a π-torsion group of bounded exponent and a π-radicable group. It is easy to see that an abelian π-separated group can in fact be decomposed as a direct product of bounded and π-radicable factors (Lemma 1.1 below). A poly-π-separated group is one which can be obtained from π-separated groups by forming a finite series of group extensions. We will show here:

Theorem 1. Every poly-π-separated nilpotent group is π-separated.

The need for such a result arises in model theory in the case that π is the set of all primes, in which case we refer simply to separated and poly-separated groups. In connection with the conjecture that ω-stable simple groups are algebraic, it is useful to have a structure theory for solvable ω-stable groups analogous to the theory available in the algebraic case over algebraically closed fields. In particular the structure of nilpotent ω-stable groups is of interest, for example in connection with the known result [Zi1], [Ne] that the derived subgroup of a connected solvable ω-stable group of finite Morley rank is nilpotent.

As a model-theoretic application of Theorem 1 we obtain:

Theorem 2. If G is an ω-stable nilpotent group then G may be decomposed as a central product B * D with B and D 0-definable subgroups, B torsion of bounded exponent, and D radicable. In particular, B and D are ω-stable. Furthermore, ω · rk(B ∩ D) ≤ rk D.

Corollary. The ω-stable groups of finite Morley rank are exactly the central products B * D of ω-stable nilpotent groups of finite Morley rank with B torsion of bounded exponent, D radicable, and B ∩ D finite.

In addition to the purely algebraic Theorem 1, these results depend on Macintyre's characterization [Mac] of the ω-stable abelian groups as exactly the separated ones.

In this note we construct Martin-Löf's inconsistent type theory, Type: Type (Martin-Löf [1971]), inside partial type theory with one universe. Thus adding a fixed point operator to type theory with one predicative universe gives impredicativity.

We may describe the theory Type:Type as follows. It contains the rules for the product construction (II) of Martin-Löf [1984] except the η-rule and it contains the usual rules for definitional equality (=). Moreover it contains the following strongly impredicative universe

This theory is inconsistent (i.e. every set is inhabited), and this is seen by proving a variant of the Burali—Forti paradox—Girard's paradox—cf. Troelstra and van Dalen [1988]. Coquand [199?] has shown that by adding the well-order type and the strong dependent sum to the universe, the fixed point operator becomes definable. It is an open problem whether it is definable without the well-order type. The present result could be seen as a converse, namely by adding the fixed point operator to type theory with one universe, Type:Type becomes definable and, as is already known, so does the well-order type.

In a nonstandard universe, the κ-saturation property states that any family of fewer than κ internal sets with the finite intersection property has a nonempty intersection. An ordered field F is said to have the λ-Bolzano-Weierstrass property iff F has cofinality λ and every bounded λ-sequence in F has a convergent λ-subsequence. We show that if κ < λ are uncountable regular cardinals and βα < λ whenever α < κ and β < λ then there is a κ-saturated nonstandard universe in which the hyperreal numbers have the λ-Bolzano-Weierstrass property. The result also applies to certain fragments of set theory and second order arithmetic.

We define an ℜ-group to be a stable group with the property that a generic element (for any definable transitive group action) can only be algebraic over a generic. We then derive some corollaries for ℜ-groups and fields, and prove a decomposition theorem and a field theorem. As a nonsuperstable example, we prove that small stable groups are ℜ-groups.

For several subsystems of second order arithmetic T we show that the proof-theoretic strength of T + (bar rule) can be characterized in terms of T + (bar induction)□, where the latter scheme arises from the scheme of bar induction by restricting it to well-orderings with no parameters. In addition, we demonstrate that , ACA0 + (bar rule) and ACA0 + (bar induction)□ prove the same -sentences.