[FOM] Feferman's natural well-ordering problem.

praatika@mappi.helsinki.fi praatika at mappi.helsinki.fi
Wed Feb 8 09:02:32 EST 2006


Quoting Bill Taylor <W.Taylor at math.canterbury.ac.nz>:

> This was mentioned by Andreas Weierman the other day, and I can find no
> help on Googol for it.
>
> Can someone please explain what it is, for us?

See Feferman's paper "Three conceptual problems that bug me"
http://math.stanford.edu/~feferman/papers/conceptualprobs.pdf
It is the second problem.

Best, Panu

Panu Raatikainen
Ph.D., Academy Research Fellow,
Docent in Theoretical Philosophy
 
Department of Philosophy
P.O. Box 9
FIN-00014 University of Helsinki
Finland
 
E-mail: panu.raatikainen at helsinki.fi
 
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