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LEVEL THEORY, PART 2: AXIOMATIZING THE BARE IDEA OF A POTENTIAL HIERARCHY

Button, T; (2021) LEVEL THEORY, PART 2: AXIOMATIZING THE BARE IDEA OF A POTENTIAL HIERARCHY. The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 10.1017/bsl.2021.14. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

Potentialists think that the concept of set is importantly modal. Using tensed language as an heuristic, the following bare-bones story introduces the idea of a potential hierarchy of sets: ‘Always: for any sets that existed, there is a set whose members are exactly those sets; there are no other sets.’ Surprisingly, this story already guarantees well-foundedness and persistence. Moreover, if we assume that time is linear, the ensuing modal set theory is almost definitionally equivalent with non-modal set theories; specifically, with Level Theory, as developed in Part 1.

Type: Article
Title: LEVEL THEORY, PART 2: AXIOMATIZING THE BARE IDEA OF A POTENTIAL HIERARCHY
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
DOI: 10.1017/bsl.2021.14
Publisher version: https://doi.org/10.1017/bsl.2021.14
Language: English
Additional information: This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions.
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UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL SLASH > Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Dept of Philosophy
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10142051
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