Gödel-Gentzen negative translation
ID: godel-gentzen-negative-translation
For an atomic formula (including logical equality), put , and put . Preserve logical conjunction, logical implication and universal quantification recursively, while settingLogical negation is logical implication to logical falsity, so . The displayed logical disjunction and existence clauses are intuitionistically equivalent to the usual negative forms and . Every translated first-order formula is stable by stability of a formula under double negation. In classical logic the translation is equivalent to the original first-order formula by mathematical induction and double-negation elimination.
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