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4 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 31 October 2012 05:09AM

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Comment author: [deleted] 31 October 2012 05:17:24PM 1 point [-]

This is pretty standard model theory: the class of models of the total theory is empty (viceversa: the theory of the class of all models is empty).

I'm not sure why level IV would restrict itself to standard model theory. In a tri-valued logic (i.e., all propositions are either true, false, or both), there are non-trivial models of trivialism.

Comment author: Luke_A_Somers 05 November 2012 04:01:11PM 0 points [-]

Trivialism would not respect Tegmark IV's subsections which comply with our model of logic.