Refutable sentences have the consistency nonprovability statement

ID: refutable-sentences-have-the-consistency-nonprovability-statement

Let be a first-order consistent arithmetic first-order theory with the Hilbert-Bernays-Löb derivability conditions, and suppose . Provability of and provability of falsity are equivalent inside , because either refutable first-order sentence implies the other. Thus is equivalent inside to its formal consistency statement. The second incompleteness theorem gives .

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