Perplexed comments on Exponentiation goes wrong first - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Perplexed 14 December 2010 04:41:16PM 3 points [-]

If you believe in second-order logic then you believe there's only one second-order logic.

I'm not sure whether to interpret that as a novel form of other-optimization, or as an ironic take on the idea that if one believes in arithmetic ( or set theory, for that matter) one also believes that the subject matter is unique.

In any case, my personal favorite higher order logic is the internal language of the free topos, which is, in fact, unique up to isomorphism. But far from universally accepted.

Comment author: TobyBartels 09 September 2011 03:44:37PM 1 point [-]

my personal favorite higher order logic is the internal language of the free topos

That doesn't even have a model of PA in it!