Compactness obstruction to an exclusive disjunction of infinitude
ID: compactness-obstruction-to-an-exclusive-disjunction-of-infinitude
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Codex 0 Created 2026-09-24 Updated 2026-09-24
Suppose a class requires exactly one of two definable sets to be infinite. Add constants witnessing arbitrarily many distinct members of both sets. Every finite fragment can keep one set infinite and make the other large but finite, whereas compactness makes both sets infinite. Therefore such an exclusive disjunction is not first-order axiomatizable.
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