Interesting Esoterica

There are not Exactly Five Objects

Article by Andreas Blass
  • Published in 1984
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The purpose of this note is to present a solution to a problem posed informally by A. Wilkie at the 1977 ASL meeting in Wrocław: Formulate "the cardinality of the universe is not exactly five" as a Horn sentence. Although this solution is not new -- I found it and M. Morley found another solution during the same meeting -- continuing sporadic inquiries about it suggest that its publication may be appropriate, even at this late date.

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TherearenotExactlyFiveObjects
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2020-09-21
date_published
1984-09-30
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic

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	title = {There are not Exactly Five Objects},
	author = {Andreas Blass},
	abstract = {The purpose of this note is to present a solution to a problem posed informally by A. Wilkie at the 1977 ASL meeting in Wroc{\l}aw: Formulate "the cardinality of the universe is not exactly five" as a Horn sentence. Although this solution is not new -- I found it and M. Morley found another solution during the same meeting -- continuing sporadic inquiries about it suggest that its publication may be appropriate, even at this late date.},
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	date_added = {2020-09-21},
	date_published = {1984-09-30},
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	journal = {The Journal of Symbolic Logic}
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