Again abbreviate provability by . The Gödel sentence equivalence gives . Internalizing this implication using the first two Hilbert-Bernays-Löb derivability conditions gives
Positive introspection also gives . Internal modus ponens rule combines proofs of a sentence and its negation into a proof of a contradiction; a contradiction implies any sentence. Consequently
These are syntactic manipulations of provability, not an appeal to soundness. If , taking the contrapositive of the last implication gives , and the diagonal equivalence gives . Part (a) rules that out for a consistent theory. Hence

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