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Answer by Joel David Hamkins for Is Morse-Kelley set theory with Class Choice bi-interpretable with itself after removing Extensionality for classes?

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No, because the latter theories has parametrically definable automorphisms that swap two equivalent classes, but the former theory is definably rigid (no need for class choice). If the theories were bi-interpretable, then we could fix a copy of the model with two equivalent classes (having the same elements), and inside this model we could define a copy of MK, and inside that define a copy of the original model, but because the automorphism would have to fix the definable interpretation but swap the classes, it would ruin the bi-interpretability feature.


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