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arxiv: 2209.07497 · v19 · pith:7HYYLU5Pnew · submitted 2022-09-15 · 💻 cs.LO · cs.CC· cs.IT· math.IT

Set Theory in the Foundation of Math; Internal Classes and External Sets

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keywords setsexternalformulasmathclassescountablequantifiersset-theoretic
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Usual math sets have special types: countable, compact, open, occasionally Borel, rarely projective, etc. Each such set is described by a single set-theoretic formula with parameters unrelated to other formulas. Exotic expressions involving sets related to formulas of unbounded quantifier depth appear mostly in esoteric or foundational studies. Recognizing the internal-to-math (formula-specified) and external (parameter-based) aspects of math objects greatly simplifies foundations. I postulate external sets (not internally specified, constituting the domain of variables) to be hereditarily countable and independent of formula-defined classes, i.e. with finite algorithmic information about them. Variables for formulas are allowed, but no explicit quantifiers over them. This allows eliminating all non-integer quantifiers in set-theoretic sentences. The restrictions seem to require almost no changes in mathematical papers, only reinterpreting some formalities.

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