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  1. Completeness and categoricity (in power): Formalization without foundationalism.John T. Baldwin - 2014 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 20 (1):39-79.
    We propose a criterion to regard a property of a theory (in first or second order logic) as virtuous: the property must have significant mathematical consequences for the theory (or its models). We then rehearse results of Ajtai, Marek, Magidor, H. Friedman and Solovay to argue that for second order logic, ‘categoricity’ has little virtue. For first order logic, categoricity is trivial; but ‘categoricity in power’ has enormous structural consequences for any of the theories satisfying it. The stability hierarchy extends (...)
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  • Quantum Mechanics, Formalization and the Cosmological Constant Problem.Jerzy Król & Torsten Asselmeyer-Maluga - 2020 - Foundations of Science 25 (4):879-904.
    Based on formal arguments from Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory we develop the environment for explaining and resolving certain fundamental problems in physics. By these formal tools we show that any quantum system defined by an infinite dimensional Hilbert space of states interferes with the spacetime structure M. M and the quantum system both gain additional degrees of freedom, given by models of Zermelo–Fraenkel set theory. In particular, M develops the ground state where classical gravity vanishes. Quantum mechanics distinguishes set-theoretic random forcing (...)
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