First-order Frege theory is undecidable

Journal of Philosophical Logic 30 (6):613-616 (2001)
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Abstract

The system whose only predicate is identity, whose only nonlogical vocabulary is the abstraction operator, and whose axioms are all first-order instances of Frege's Axiom V is shown to be undecidable

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On the consistency of the first-order portion of Frege's logical system.Terence Parsons - 1987 - Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic 28 (1):161-168.

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