Tag: first-order logic

  • Naïve set theory

    This post is sort of a translation and a follow-up of a post in Spanish about the comparison between naïve and axiomatic set theory. The point I made in the previous post is that One leaves naïve set theory in the moment that first order logic (FOL) gets explicit. Or, from a different perspective, when…

  • Teoría de conjuntos ingenua

    Abstract. I’ll discuss one view of the naïve-axiomatic dichotomy in Set Theory. My claim is that one leaves the “naïve” world when first order logic (or put differently, the possibility of different models of ZFC) becomes explicit. En muchas ocasiones se utiliza el término teoría de conjuntos ingenua; incluso el libro de Halmos se llama…