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Assume that $A$ is not intuitionistically valid. Completeness gives a Kripke countermodel for $A$. Apply filtration of a Kripke model through the finite set of subformulae of $A$: two worlds are identified when they force the same subformulae, and the quotient order is induced by inclusion of those finite theories. The filtration lemma preserves the forcing of every subformula of $A$, so the image of the original counterexample world still fails to force $A$. There are at most $2^n$ quotient worlds when $A$ has $n$ distinct subformulae. Hence the quotient is a finite countermodel.

This proves the Finite model property of intuitionistic propositional logic. Its contrapositive says that a proposition forced by every finite intuitionistic Kripke model is intuitionistically valid.

Assume ${⊬}_{IPC}\phi$. By Kripke completeness there is a rooted countermodel. Unravel it into a tree and retain only the subformulas $\Phi$ of $\phi$. Whenever a retained node fails an implication $\alpha \to \beta \in \Phi$, retain one successor witnessing $\alpha$ and the failure of $\beta$. Along a branch, passing to a genuinely new witness strictly enlarges the finite theory of subformulas, so at most $n$ witness levels are needed. Identifying repeated equal theories and retaining at most one witness for each failed implication leaves at most $n$ representatives for each of the at most $2^n$ theories. The resulting pruned filtration has at most $n{2}^n$ worlds and still refutes $\phi$ by the truth lemma.