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- From: pratt@Sunburn.Stanford.EDU (Vaughan R. Pratt)
- Subject: Re: Foundation, a.k.a. Regularity (was re: Impredicativity - was: Russell's Paradox.)
- Message-ID: <1992Nov5.173131.22564@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU>
- Keywords: foundation (regularity) => cumulative hierarchy
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- Organization: Computer Science Department, Stanford University.
- References: <1992Nov4.161936.12444@guinness.idbsu.edu> <1992Nov4.221041.4812@CSD-NewsHost.Stanford.EDU> <1992Nov5.112036.17130@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: Thu, 5 Nov 1992 17:31:31 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov5.112036.17130@husc3.harvard.edu> zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
- >Vaughan, I shall presume to fill in for Randall by pointing out that
- >Schoenfield formulates the Regularity Axiom on p. 326 of the Handbook,
- >whereas Takeuti & Zaring describe the same axiom on p. 18 of the first
- >edition of their book. While I am happy to see someone else follow my
- >preferred practice of reading into a text whatever one wants to find
- >therein, I really wish you would check your sources before wasting the
- >time of your audience with this pointless prevarication.
-
- Yes, you're absolutely right, I don't know why I thought it wasn't
- there. I retract what I said about Regularity (Foundation) being
- omitted, very sorry. (This is turning out to be an excellent way for
- me to get rid of my misconceptions about set theory. I hope people
- don't object to strongly to my occasional slipups of this kind in this
- forum. Short of investing a lot more time checking everything, the
- only alternative I see is for me not to post anything about things I'm
- not expert in.)
-
- >This informal procedure can be made rigorous as follows. The form of
- >FA that I find most useful for these purposes is the Axiom Schema of
- >Restriction,
-
- Oops, that should have been Regularity. (Bill's calling it AF was
- equally confusing for me, making me think of AntiFoundation.)
- --
- Vaughan Pratt There's no truth in logic, son.
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