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Statement of consistency in Godel's second incompleteness theorem

I think there is a typo in Problem 18.6 of Belaniuk's text, because the $\mathcal{A}$ in the problem refers to a (rather weak) fragment of $PA$ (but strong enough to numeralwise represent all recursiv …
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What are the models of Peano Arithmetic plus the negation of the corresponding Gödel sentenc...

Here is the most "tangible" distinctive feature of models of $PA$ that satisfy the negation of Gödel's true but unprovable sentence. Let $\phi$ be a true $\Pi^0_1$ arithmetical sentence that is not p …
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Is there a theory in a finite language that is computably axiomatizable but not by a finite ...

This answers complements Fedor Pakhamov's, who provided an example of a computable theory that is not axiomatizable by finitely many schemas. Following up on the comment by Andreas Blass to the questi …
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Are there any natural recursively but not primitive-recursively axiomatized theories?

Here is another proposal. In this edition, the PS has been completely changed Let $T_{ZFC}$ = arithmetical truths that $ZFC$ "knows about", i.e., the set of arithmetic sentences $\phi$ such that $ZFC …
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Can we find strong fixed-points in the fixed-point lemma of Gödel's incompleteness theorem, ...

The existence of a Gödel-numbering that supports a strong fixed point was claimed by Kripke in his famous essay Outline of a Theory of Truth, Journal of Philosophy vol. 72 pp.690–716 (the only online …
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How do you prove that Q+Con(PA) can't be interpreted in ACA_0?

Firstly, your proposed reasoning does not work since $Con(PA)$ is a $\Pi^0_1$ statement. Secondly, your parenthetical assumption is not in accordance with the general meaning of interpretations, and …
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Uncountable models of Kelley-Morse set theory with only a countable number of sets

The first relevant theorem is the following classical result: Theorem A. (Mostowski, Keisler) If $M$ is a countable model of Kelley-Morse + Choice Scheme, then there is an elementary extension $M^{*} …
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Finite T-uples and the axiom of Regularity

Question 3 also has a negative answer (Joel Hamkins has already answered the first two questions). The model $V(a,b,c)$ described in detail in my answer to an analogous question works here as well si …
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ordered fields with the bounded value property

EDIT NOTE: A postscript has been added to indicate why the answer does not change if one is forced to work in $ZF+AC_\omega$ (prompted by a query of James Propp). Thanks to James Propp, Ricky Demmer, …
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ordered fields with the bounded value property, without choice

In my answer to the related question, $AC_{\omega}$ was only used to ensure that one can get hold of a regular uncountable cardinal (i.e., $\omega_1$). And of course Gitik's remarkable theorem assures …
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Incompleteness theorems for theories with omega-rule

Footnote to Emil Jeřábek's answer: (1) Rosser (Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1937) was the first to show that there is a true $\Sigma^1_1$-statement that is unprovable in (second order arithmetic + the $ …
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Skolem's method for checking truth-value assignments - a "cut-free proof procedure" for firs...

The answer to the question can be found in Section I (especially p.11) of this source (it is a newly typeset version of Joseph E. Quinsey's 1980 Oxford doctoral thesis Some Problems in Logic: APPLICAT …
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Does ZF(C) prove countable reflection?

As Monroe Eskew points out in his comment to the question, the positive answer is well-known for ZFC, thanks to the ZF reflection theorem and the Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem (in the form: every model in …
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Is every order type of a PA model the \omega of some ZFC model?

Joel Hamkins has already answered the question in the positive for countable models of PA; indeed PA can be relaxed to IOpen in his argument. In the uncountable case, as far as I know, the problem is …
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Set theory determined by $V_\alpha$ for limit ordinals $\alpha>\omega$

This answer concerns the second question (which asks whether there is a characterization of the theory of models of the form $V_{\alpha}$, where $\alpha$ ranges over limit ordinals), and its elaborati …
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