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In the setting of arithmetic, the numerical existence property implies the disjunction property. The proof uses the fact that a disjunction can be rewritten as an existential formula quantifying over natural numbers:
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eliminated in favor of the axiom of collection has the disjunction property, the numerical existence property, and the existence property. Michael Rathjen (2005) proved that
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While the earliest results were for constructive theories of arithmetic, many results are also known for constructive set theories (Rathjen 2005).
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These properties can only be directly expressed for theories that have the ability to quantify over natural numbers and, for CR
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while having independent statements does not have the disjunction property. So all classical theories expressing
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Rathjen (2005) lists five properties that a theory may possess. These include the disjunction property (
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is well known for having the disjunction property and the (numerical) existence property.
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in turn do not validate the existence property either, e.g. because they validate the
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Stephen Cole Kleene, 1945, "On the interpretation of intuitionistic number theory,"
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The Disjunction and Related Properties for Constructive Zermelo-Fraenkel Set Theory
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and Scedrov (1990) observed that the disjunction property holds in free
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There are several relationship between the five properties discussed above.
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Thus, assuming the numerical existence property, there exists some
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has the disjunction property and the numerical existence property.
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existence claim. But some classical theories, such as ZFC plus the
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The disjunction property implies the numerical existence property
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of the theory has the property stated above (Rathjen 2005).
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may be used to show that one of the disjuncts is provable.
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it represents (the global-section functor) preserves
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is a numeral, one may concretely check the value of
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has no other free variables, then the theory proves
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Index

Existence property
list of references
related reading
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improve
introducing
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mathematical logic
constructive
Heyting arithmetic
constructive set theories
sentence
theorem
term
Church's rule
definitional extension
excluded middle
Robinson arithmetic
Peano arithmetic
ZFC
least number principle
axiom of constructibility
Heyting arithmetic
John Myhill
IZF
axiom of replacement
CZF
Freyd
Heyting algebras

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