Put . The first supplied equivalence, retained in , combines with its new axiom to give
The supplied implication then yields, by contraposition,
Finally the second supplied equivalence is , so propositional reasoning gives
No extra first-order consistency assumption is needed for this formal derivation. If is first-order consistent, part (b) shows that adding preserves first-order consistency, because inconsistency of the extension would imply . Such a first-order consistent extension therefore proves the negation of its own true Gödel sentence, illustrating why first-order consistency alone does not imply one-consistency.

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