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arxiv: 1406.4384 · v1 · pith:6XVFZGRHnew · submitted 2014-06-17 · 🧮 math.LO

Decidable fragments of the Simple Theory of Types with Infinity and NF

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We identify complete fragments of the Simple Theory of Types with Infinity ($\mathrm{TSTI}$) and Quine's $\mathrm{NF}$ set theory. We show that $\mathrm{TSTI}$ decides every sentence $\phi$ in the language of type theory that is in one of the following forms: (A) $\phi= \forall x_1^{r_1} \cdots \forall x_k^{r_k} \exists y_1^{s_1} \cdots \exists y_l^{s_l} \theta$ where the superscripts denote the types of the variables, $s_1 > \ldots > s_l$ and $\theta$ is quantifier-free, (B) $\phi= \forall x_1^{r_1} \cdots \forall x_k^{r_k} \exists y_1^{s} \cdots \exists y_l^{s} \theta$ where the superscripts denote the types of the variables and $\theta$ is quantifier-free. This shows that $\mathrm{NF}$ decides every stratified sentence $\phi$ in the language of set theory that is in one of the following forms: (A') $\phi= \forall x_1 \cdots \forall x_k \exists y_1 \cdots \exists y_l \theta$ where $\theta$ is quantifier-free and $\phi$ admits a stratification that assigns distinct values to all of the variable $y_1, \ldots, y_l$, (B') $\phi= \forall x_1 \cdots \forall x_k \exists y_1 \cdots \exists y_l \theta$ where $\theta$ is quantifier-free and $\phi$ admits a stratification that assigns the same value to all of the variables $y_1, \ldots, y_l$.

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