[FOM] Odd Thought About Identity
Paul Hollander
paul at paulhollander.com
Fri May 22 22:17:33 EDT 2009
Correction to my previous submission. Vaught uses the word 'schematic'
twice in R. Vaught, Axiomatizability by a schema, The Journal of
Symbolic Logic, vol. 32 (1967), pp. 473– 479.
In both cases he is uses the expression 'schematic axiomatizability'.
The first is in footnote 4 on p. 473, where he writes:
The question of the schematic axiomatizability of these induced
theories, brought to the author's attention by Dana Scott, was the
initial stimulus for the work reported here.
The second is on p. 478 in the body of the text, where he writes:
Nevertheless, there do not appear to be any very interesting
theories whose schematic axiomatizability is obtainable from Theorem
2 but not from Theorem 1.
It seems 'schematic axiomatizability' is a synonym for 'axiomatizability
by a schema', which as Richard pointed out is not at issue.
So the question remains, what is Vaught's own side condition for
Leibniz's Law (or his analogue of Leibniz's Law), and does it correspond
to Richard's or Alex's side condition (or neither)?
-paul
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