Solution

ID: past-exam-of-the-model-theory-and-godel-s-incompleteness-theorems-course-of-the-university-of-oxford/2010/a/2/b/solution

Let abbreviate the fixed false arithmetic equality, and fix an actual proof of with code . For a proposed proof code , that known proof of the negation already violates the bounded negative-proof test in .
For the finitely many codes , either one is an actual proof of , in which case Peano arithmetic is inconsistent and proves the requested conclusion by explosion, or none is. In the latter case the finitely many true bounded facts are all provable by bounded completeness. Their conjunction excludes every code below . The positive bounded fact that proves is likewise provable. Splitting and inside arithmetic now gives
Thus the consistency statement for this Rosser provability predicate is provable. The argument uses only a fixed finite initial segment of proof codes; it does not prove the usual unbounded consistency statement.

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