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Craig trick

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The Craig trick converts an enumeration A1​,A2​,… of axioms into a decidable equivalent set by replacing Ai​ with a syntactically self-indexing repetition containing i copies of Ai​. A candidate of length m can only encode one of the first m axioms, so membership is decidable after computing that finite prefix.

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