[FOM] 176:Count Arithmetic

Dean Buckner Dean.Buckner at btopenworld.com
Sat Jun 14 12:58:50 EDT 2003


Tennant:
> It's a nice teaser to try to give an inductive definition of the
> quantified formulae that would express "there are exactly n k-tuples
> <x1,...,xk> such that F(x1,...,xk)".

Here's a try.  Would something of the following form do:

    There are n+1 objects iff there are n objects and it is the case that p

where "p" expresses the same proposition for every value of n?

Dean





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