Finitely Axiomatized Set Theory: a nonclassical first-order theory implying ZF

Marcoen Cabbolet

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Finitely Axiomatized Set Theory: a nonclassical first-order theory implying ZF

Marcoen Cabbolet

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It is well-known that a finite axiomatization of Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory (ZF) is not possible in the same first-order language. In this note we show that a finite axiomatization is possible if we extent the language of ZF with the new logical concept of 'universal quantification over a family of variables indexed in an arbitrary set X' and with a concept of generalized disjunction. We axiomatically introduce Finitely Axiomatized Set Theory (FAST), which consists of eleven theorems of ZF plus a new constructive axiom called the family set axiom (FAM), the latter is a generalization of the pair axiom of ZF, and uses the new concepts. We prove that FAM enables to derive the axioms schemes of separation and substitution of ZF from FAST, and that the Loewenheim-Skolem theorem does not hold for FAST. The conclusions are (i) that FAST is a finite, nonclassical first-order theory, and (ii) that FAST implies ZF.

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Marcoen Cabbolet. 2014-02-05. Finitely Axiomatized Set Theory: a nonclassical first-order theory implying ZF. https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1017

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