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Logics for stable and unstable mereological relations

Vladislav Nenchev (2011)

Open Mathematics

In this paper we present logics about stable and unstable versions of several well-known relations from mereology: part-of, overlap and underlap. An intuitive semantics is given for the stable and unstable relations, describing them as dynamic counterparts of the base mereological relations. Stable relations are described as ones that always hold, while unstable relations hold sometimes. A set of first-order sentences is provided to serve as axioms for the stable and unstable relations, and representation...

Order with successors is not interprétable in RCF

S. Świerczkowski (1993)

Fundamenta Mathematicae

Using the monotonicity theorem of L. van den Dries for RCF-definable real functions, and a further result of that author about RCF-definable equivalence relations on ℝ, we show that the theory of order with successors is not interpretable in the theory RCF. This confirms a conjecture by J. Mycielski, P. Pudlák and A. Stern.

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