The Hierarchy Theorem for Second Order Generalized Quantifiers

Journal of Symbolic Logic 71 (1):188 - 202 (2006)
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We study definability of second order generalized quantifiers on finite structures. Our main result says that for every second order type t there exists a second order generalized quantifier of type t which is not definable in the extension of second order logic by all second order generalized quantifiers of types lower than t

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On second-order generalized quantifiers and finite structures.Anders Andersson - 2002 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 115 (1--3):1--32.
Definability of second order generalized quantifiers.Juha Kontinen - 2010 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 49 (3):379-398.

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