[SCL] Identity and Horrocks sentences
Michael Gruninger
gruning at cme.nist.gov
Mon Jun 2 11:23:26 CDT 2003
pat hayes wrote:
> >
> >Not sure what you mean. Upward and downward L-Sk hold for both FOL and
> >FOL=.
>
> Upward doesn't: (forall (?x ?y)(?x = ?y)) doesn't have a countable
> model in FOL=, does in plain FOL. Countable means cardinality
> aleph-0, right?
>
You lost me on this one.
Any model of the sentence
(forall (?x ?y)(?x = ?y))
has cardinality 1, but this doesn't mean that Upward LST fails.
One condition for the theorem is that the theory has infinite models
(which is not true for your sentence).
- michael
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