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Tarski famously proved arithmetic truth is not definable in the language of arithmetic. Ie there's no predicate $T$ such that $T(|\sigma|)$ is true in the standard model of arithmetic iff $\sigma$ is true in the standard model of arithmetic.

I have heard that nonetheless such a predicate exists in the language of ZF set theory. Since there is no standard model of ZF, what does it mean for an arithmetic truth predicate T to exist in the language of ZF?

Possibly “there is no standard model of ZF” betrays my total ignorance of set theory.

Tim kinsella
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