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SYNTHESE
2008
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Some remarks on the bearing of model theory on the theory of theories
The present paper offers some remarks on the significance of first order model theory for our understanding of theories, and more generally, for our understanding of the "stru...
William Demopoulos
IGPL
2007
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Logical and Philosophical Remarks on Quasi-Set Theory
Quasi-set theory is a theory for dealing with collections of indistinguishable objects. In this paper we discuss some logical and philosophical questions involved with such a theo...
Newton C. A. da Costa, Décio Krause
ENTCS
2011
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12 years 11 months ago
Symmetry and Composition in Probabilistic Theories
The past decade has seen a remarkable resurgence of the old programme of finding more or less a priori axioms for the mathematical framework of quantum mechanics. The new impetus...
Alexander Wilce
IMPERIAL
1993
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Deriving Category Theory from Type Theory
This work expounds the notion that (structured) categories are syntax free presentations of type theories, and shows some of the ideas involved in deriving categorical semantics f...
Roy L. Crole
IGPL
2008
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The Ricean Objection: An Analogue of Rice's Theorem for First-order Theories
We propose here an extension of Rice's Theorem to first-order logic, proven by totally elementary means. If P is any property defined over the collection of all first-order t...
Igor Carboni Oliveira, Walter Alexandre Carnielli