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CONSTRUCTIVE REFLECTIVITY PRINCIPLES FOR REGULAR THEORIES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 September 2019

HENRIK FORSSELL  and
PETER LEFANU LUMSDAINE
HENRIK FORSSELL
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF INFORMATICS UNIVERSITY OF OSLO POSTBOKS1080BLINDERN 0316 OSLO, NORWAY and DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS AND SCIENCE EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH-EASTERN NORWAY PAPIRBREDDEN 1 3045 DRAMMEN, NORWAY E-mail: jonf@ifi.uio.no
PETER LEFANU LUMSDAINE
Affiliation:
DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY SE-106 91 STOCKHOLM SWEDENE-mail: p.l.lumsdaine@math.su.se
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Abstract

Classically, any structure for a signature ${\rm{\Sigma }}$ may be completed to a model of a desired regular theory ${T}}$ by means of the chase construction or small object argument. Moreover, this exhibits ${\rm{Mod}}\left(T)$ as weakly reflective in ${\rm{Str}}\left( {\rm{\Sigma }} \right)$.

We investigate this in the constructive setting. The basic construction is unproblematic; however, it is no longer a weak reflection. Indeed, we show that various reflectivity principles for models of regular theories are equivalent to choice principles in the ambient set theory. However, the embedding of a structure into its chase-completion still satisfies a conservativity property, which suffices for applications such as the completeness of regular logic with respect to Tarski (i.e., set) models.

Unlike most constructive developments of predicate logic, we do not assume that equality between symbols in the signature is decidable. While in this setting, we also give a version of one classical lemma which is trivial over discrete signatures but more interesting here: the abstraction of constants in a proof to variables.

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03F6503G3018C10regular logicconstructive semanticschoice principles
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 84 , Issue 4 , December 2019 , pp. 1348 - 1367
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Copyright © The Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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