AlephNeil comments on Completeness, incompleteness, and what it all means: first versus second order logic - Less Wrong
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Indeed, since the second-order theory of the real numbers is categorical, and since it can express the continuum hypothesis, an oracle for second-order validity would tell us either that CH or ¬CH is 'valid'.
("Set theory in sheep's clothing".)