Failure of Higher-Order Truth within Intuitionistic Propositional Logic

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The paper proves that not every Heyting algebra can occur as the lattice of subterminal objects of an elementary topos. Specifically, the free Heyting algebra $F_2$ on two generators cannot occur. Using Bellissima’s representation $F_2\hookrightarrow\mathcal O_\uparrow(K_2)$, the authors construct an upward-closed subset $A\subseteq K_2$ with $A\notin F_2$. They show that if some elementary topos $\mathcal E$ satisfied $\operatorname{Sub}_{\mathcal E}(1)\cong F_2$, then higher-order internal logic would make $A$ definable as a global proposition, forcing $A$ to correspond to an element of $F_2$, a contradiction. Thus no elementary topos has subterminal lattice isomorphic to $F_2$, disproving the claim that every Heyting algebra can arise this way. The paper does not classify which Heyting algebras are realizable. parent of this event