Hmm, that almost seems to be cutting off the nose to spite the cliche. Cantor’s construction is a very natural construction. A set theory where you can’t prove that would be seen by many as unacceptably weak. I’m a bit fuzzy on the details of your system, but let me ask, can you prove in this system that there’s any uncountable set at all? For example, can we prove |R| > |N| ?
Yes. The proof that |R| > |N| stays working because predicates over N aren’t themselves members of N, so the issue of “complete definedness” doesn’t come up.
Hmm, this make work then and not kill off too much of set theory. You may want to talk to a professional set theorist or logician about this (my specialty is number theory so all I can do is glance at this and say that it looks plausible). The only remaining issue then becomes that I’m not sure that this is inherently better than standard set theory. In particular, this approach seems much less counterintuitive than ZFC. But that may be due to the fact that I’m more used to working with ZF-like objects.
Hmm, that almost seems to be cutting off the nose to spite the cliche. Cantor’s construction is a very natural construction. A set theory where you can’t prove that would be seen by many as unacceptably weak. I’m a bit fuzzy on the details of your system, but let me ask, can you prove in this system that there’s any uncountable set at all? For example, can we prove |R| > |N| ?
Yes. The proof that |R| > |N| stays working because predicates over N aren’t themselves members of N, so the issue of “complete definedness” doesn’t come up.
Hmm, this make work then and not kill off too much of set theory. You may want to talk to a professional set theorist or logician about this (my specialty is number theory so all I can do is glance at this and say that it looks plausible). The only remaining issue then becomes that I’m not sure that this is inherently better than standard set theory. In particular, this approach seems much less counterintuitive than ZFC. But that may be due to the fact that I’m more used to working with ZF-like objects.