DaFranker comments on Second-Order Logic: The Controversy - Less Wrong

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Comment author: DaFranker 09 January 2013 07:19:02PM *  2 points [-]

I fail to see how this is evidence of Nonsecondorderizability of some possible sentences.

There is no known trick to encode all sentences expressible in higher-order logics into first-order logic, but there is such a trick to encode all sentences expressible in higher-order logics in second-order logic.

The trick in question is described in the SEP article. Doesn't that suffice as a reference and starting point for studying the notion that second-order logic can encode higher-order logics?

Comment author: albtross 09 January 2013 08:15:17PM 0 points [-]

i misread it XD trhanks for your help