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Re: [ontolog-forum] Ontological correctness

To: Chris Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: "[ontolog-forum] " <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Michael Gruninger <mudcat@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
From: Pat Hayes <phayes@xxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2007 11:29:18 -0600
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>On Wednesday 31 January 2007 17:44, Chris Menzel wrote:
>>  (And isn't the possibility of
>>  isomorphic models always ruled out for first-order ontologies simply by the
>>  Loewenheim-Skolem theorem?)
>
>What I meant here, of course, is the possibility that all models of the
>ontology are isomorphic.  But now I think what you meant is simply the idea
>that every model of the ontology turn out to be isomorphic to one of the
>intended models.  This could obviously turn out to be the case so long as one
>simply defines one's class of intended models broadly enough.
>    (01)

Like, in the case of arithmetic, by defining it 
to be the class of all models of Peano arithmetic?    (02)

Pat    (03)

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