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A fixed-point theorem is a result saying that a function $F$ will have at least one fixed point (a point $x$ for which $F(x) = x$), under some conditions on $F$ that can be stated in general terms.

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Is there a syntactic proof that first-order positive inductive definitions are conservative?

Every first-order positive inductive definition has a fixed point. It follows that, if the biconditional is thought of as an axiom in the language obtained from the background language by adding a new …
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