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Situation with Artemov's paper?

The essential issue is the same as one that has been discussed many times here on MO, for example here and here. Consider the following string $S$. $$(\exists x \exists y \exists z : xxx + yyy - zzz = …
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Examples of mathematical theories that are naturally written in exotic logics

It is up for debate how "natural" their approach is, but Smullyan and Fitting use modal logic to develop forcing, in their book, Set Theory and the Continuum Problem. See Michael Weiss's notes for a d …
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Why should I believe Martin's Maximum++?

Although it's not really a scholarly publication, the Quanta Magazine article, To Settle Infinity Dispute, a New Law of Logic, gives a good introduction to the topic. That article mentions a conferenc …
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Can the Riemann hypothesis be undecidable?

This is more of a comment than an answer, but I think it is important to point out that the book Equivalents of the Riemann Hypothesis: Volume 3 by Kevin Broughan (Cambridge University Press, 2023), a …
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What's the earliest result (outside of logic) that cannot be proven constructively?

A somewhat different type of example, not as early as the ones in Andrej Bauer's answer, but perhaps a bit more resistant to "moving the goalposts," is an ineffective result in number theory. For exam …
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Is PA consistent? do we know it?

EDIT: I have written a paper that greatly expands on my answer here, and that in particular contains sketches of Gentzen's proof and Friedman's proof, as well as a discussion of formalism. I have alr …
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Automatically solving olympiad geometry problems

Arguably, the so-called "area method" of Chou, Gao and Zhang represents the state of the art in the field of machine proofs of Olympiad-style geometry problems. Their book Machine Proofs in Geometry …
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In what sense does the sentence $\operatorname{con}(\mathsf{PA})$ "say" that $\mathsf{PA}$ i...

There is really nothing peculiar about Con(PA) in this regard. Let's take a simpler statement, such as $$(\exists x \exists y \exists z : xxx + yyy - zzz = 114) \vee (\exists x \exists y \exists z : …
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Why is an internal proof of consistency satisfactory for some systems?

The answer by user57888 is correct, but let me emphasize two things. The first is that much of the interest in this type of question predates Gödel's theorems. So if you want to understand the origina …
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Standard models of N and R: An Alice/Bob approach

Like Burak, I am responding to the OP's request to promote my comments to an answer, with the caveat that I want to avoid wading too deeply into philosophical debates that I think are beyond the scope …
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MIP*=RE theorem and its impact on logic and proof theory

You wrote: maybe there is some undecidable problem on which now we can shed some more light … Depending on what you mean by "shed some more light," the answer is yes; the original paper already expl …
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What is lost in General Relativity without Hahn-Banach axiom in the ZF+HB set theory?

As Ryan Budney mentioned in a comment, there is some ambiguity about what exactly you mean by "general relativity." General relativity is primarily a physical theory rather than a mathematical theory. …
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Are there any undecidability results that are not known to have a diagonal argument proof?

[Edited slightly for (hopefully!) greater clarity.] This is more of a comment than an answer, but I think it is relevant. In the context of computational complexity theory (rather than computability …
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An overview of mathematical-logical approaches in formalizing natural languages

This is a really a question about linguistics rather than mathematics, so you might be better off asking your question on Linguistics StackExchange rather than here. But anyway, I think what you're a …
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Real reverse mathematics

Regarding your question of why we don't just take $\Phi_M$ to be the foundation, there's a well-known "inexhaustibility" difficulty coming from Gödel's theorem. I quote from the first page of Torkel …
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