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Feb 7, 2020 at 22:15 comment added Mallik I just figured out that Godel is using "function" to refer not to functions but to predicates. This becomes clear in the final steps of the proof. I haven't worked through the details yet.
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Feb 7, 2020 at 21:09 comment added Mallik @NoahSchweber Avigad explicitly considers only formulas $\forall \exists A$ where $A$ does not contain function symbols. The addition of function symbols is the hang-up I have w.r.t. Godel's proof.
Feb 7, 2020 at 20:21 comment added Noah Schweber @AndreasBlass To be fair there are clearer write-ups of the same argument (e.g. Avigad).
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Feb 7, 2020 at 2:11 comment added Mallik @NoahSchweber I've added the original passage from the1930 version (p. 115 of the work cited).
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Feb 7, 2020 at 1:49 comment added Andreas Blass @NoahSchweber I conjecture (but don't guarantee) that a lot of what's unclear here comes directly from Gödel's original paper. His argument was considerably more complicated than the Henkin proof that is now standard.
Feb 6, 2020 at 19:29 comment added Noah Schweber This is a bit unclear to me. First, your "function variables" and "proposition variables" are what we more commonly refer to as "function symbols" and "relation symbols," correct? Second, I don't follow your definition of satisfying system of level $n$, and in particular the definition of $ns$. Do you have a citation to a text where this language is used? That might be helpful ...
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