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Where did this presentation of Godel'sGödel's theorem appear?

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Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel'sGödel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic; see "appropriate"Jones and Shepherdson - Variants of Robinson's essentially undecidable theory $R$ theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

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Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1Kreisel - Model-theoretic invariants: Applications to recursive and hyperarithmetic operations, 2Moschovakis - Abstract Computability and Invariant Definability, 3Apt - Inductive definitions, models of comprehension and invariant definability). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

Where did this presentation of Godel's theorem appear?

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Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1, 2, 3). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

Where did this presentation of Gödel's theorem appear?

This question was asked and bountied at MSE, with no response.


Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Gödel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic; see Jones and Shepherdson - Variants of Robinson's essentially undecidable theory $R$):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. Kreisel - Model-theoretic invariants: Applications to recursive and hyperarithmetic operations, Moschovakis - Abstract Computability and Invariant Definability, Apt - Inductive definitions, models of comprehension and invariant definability). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

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Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

##Where did this argument appear?

Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1, 2, 3). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

This question was asked and bountied at MSE, with no response.


Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

##Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1, 2, 3). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

This question was asked and bountied at MSE, with no response.


Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1, 2, 3). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.

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Where did this presentation of Godel's theorem appear?

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Many years ago I ran into the following proof of Godel's first incompleteness theorem (here $T$ is an "appropriate" theory of arithmetic.):

First, we observe that Tarski's undefinability theorem can be slightly tweaked to say that for all $M\models T$, the theory of $M$ can't be the standard part of an $M$-(parameter-freely-)definable set. Next, by the usual representability arguments we have that every computable set is invariantly definable: if $X\subseteq\mathbb{N}$ is computable and $M\models T$ then $X$ is the standard part of a definable set in $M$. Now if $S$ were a computable satisfiable completion of $T$ we would get a contradiction by looking at $M\models S$. If we want, we can then replace "satisfiable" with "consistent" via the completeness theorem.

My question is:

##Where did this argument appear?

I'm not asking whether this is a "genuinely different" argument (although that said, see here). Rather, I'm interested in its presentation in terms of invariant definability. This was a notion first introduced by Kreisel following Godel/Herbrand and subsequently studied by others (see e.g. 1, 2, 3). My vivid recollection is that the argument above appeared as a footnote in the first paper mentioned above, but it turns out it's not there after all.