On the Axiom of Canonicity
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2022.022Keywords
extremal axiom, axiom of restriction, constructible set, Skolem’s paradox, countability, uncountability, model of set theoryAbstract
The axiom of canonicity was introduced by the famous Polish logician Roman Suszko in 1951 as an explication of Skolem's Paradox (without reference to the L\"{o}wenheim-Skolem theorem) and a precise representation of the axiom of restriction in set theory proposed much earlier by Abraham Fraenkel. We discuss the main features of Suszko's contribution and hint at its possible further applications.
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