The definable power set performs one definability step over the single structure , whereas the constructible power set contains subsets of created at arbitrarily late stages of the constructible hierarchy.
For the concrete case , there are only countably many first-order formulas and finite tuples of natural-number parameters, so is a countable set. In contrast, the constructible universe satisfies ZFC, and Cantor theorem makes its full power set uncountable inside . Consequently
so the two notions do not agree in general.
Fix . Inside the ambient transitive model , the Axiom of power set makes the collection of constructible subsets of a set. For each such subset , choose the least stage of the constructible hierarchy at which appears. The Axiom schema of replacement and the supremum of a set of ordinals give an ordinal bounding all these stages; enlarge so that .
Now
is definable over with parameter . It therefore belongs to the definable power set . This set contains exactly the subsets of that belong to the constructible universe, so it witnesses the Axiom of power set in . Therefore Power Set.