Abstract
We consider a family U of finite universes. The second order existential quantifier Qℜ, means for each U ∈ U quantifying over a set of n(ℜ)-place relations isomorphic to a given relation. We define a natural partial order on such quantifiers called interpretability. We show that for every Qℜ, either Qℜ is interpretable by quantifying over subsets of U and one to one functions on U both of bounded order, or the logic L(Qℜ) (first order logic plus the quantifier Qℜ) is undecidable.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1297-1324 |
| Number of pages | 28 |
| Journal | Journal of Symbolic Logic |
| Volume | 70 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Dec 2005 |
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