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Past exam of the model theory and Gödel's incompleteness theorems course of the University of Oxford 2009 A 2 d Solution by
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Use the two formal consistency equivalences expressly supplied for this part. If , the derivability conditions give . Taking negations and applying those supplied equivalences yieldsOne-consistency implies soundness under bounded completeness. Hence is consistent: if not, would prove , a false sentence. But in that consistent extension the last equivalence and its consistency axiom prove its own consistency . Gödel's second incompleteness theorem rules this out. ThereforeThis establishes the requested unprovability using the explicit formal hypotheses, without inferring internal provability from the semantic equivalence discussed in the preceding part. The hypotheses for the second theorem are the standard effective arithmetic presentation and adequate provability predicates stipulated here.
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