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first-order and higher-order logic, model theory, set theory, proof theory, computability theory, formal languages, definability, interplay of syntax and semantics, constructive logic, intuitionism, philosophical logic, modal logic, completeness, Gödel incompleteness, decidability, undecidability, theories of truth, truth revision, consistency.

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Are there examples of statements that have been proven whose consistency proofs came before ...

I'm wondering if there are examples of statements that have been proven whose consistency proofs came before the proofs of the statements themselves. More informally, I'm wondering how promising in g …
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How much of P versus NP's difficulty stems from having to rule out the existence of Turing m...

It seems like there is a sense in which a Turing machine that demonstrates P=NP could be said to "accidentally" exist. I'm wondering the extent to which the possibility of such machines is the main r …