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Topic: [isabelle] On foundation axiom in ZF


view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 16:44):

From: Victor Porton <porton@narod.ru>
First, I don't understand what square brackets here means:

definition
foundation_ax :: "(i=>o) => o" where
"foundation_ax(M) ==
∀x[M]. (∃y[M]. y∈x) --> (∃y[M]. y∈x & ~(∃z[M]. z∈x & z ∈ y))"

Please clarify.

Second, could you help to prove "not({t}: t)"?

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Victor Porton - http://portonvictor.org

view this post on Zulip Email Gateway (Aug 18 2022 at 16:44):

From: Lawrence Paulson <lp15@cam.ac.uk>
The material that you quote is from the development of the constructible universe, and is highly technical. For more information, see the following paper:

The relative consistency of the axiom of choice — mechanized using Isabelle/ZF

The foundation axiom itself is simply called foundation and is defined in ZF.thy. I suggest that you find a contradiction from {t} : t on paper first and then reconstruct it formally.

Larry Paulson


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