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When must one strengthen one's induction hypothesis?
My questions are about the phenomenon that in order to prove a fact $\forall x \phi(x)$ by induction, sometimes straightforward induction "does not work" and instead one "must" use a "stronger" induct …
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Cases where multiple induction steps are provably required
Here is a reference for one way of making precise sense of your question and answering it:
Stefan Hetzl and Tin Lok Wong (2017): "Some observations on the logical foundations of inductive theorem …