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THE PROSPECTS OF UNLIMITED CATEGORY THEORY: DOING WHAT REMAINS TO BE DONE

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 February 2015

MICHAEL ERNST
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Abstract

The big question at the end of Feferman (2013) is: Is it possible to find a foundation for unlimited category theory? I show that the answer is no by showing that unlimited category theory is inconsistent.

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Research Article
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The Review of Symbolic Logic , Volume 8 , Issue 2 , June 2015 , pp. 306 - 327
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2015 

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