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Compositional truth with propositional tautologies and quantifier-free correctness

Logic 2020-11-16 v1

Abstract

Cie\'sli\'nski asked whether compositional truth theory with the additional axiom that all propositional tautologies are true is conservative over Peano Arithmetic. We provide a partial answer to this question, showing that if we additionally assume that truth predicate agrees with arithmetical truth on quantifier-free sentences, the resulting theory is as strong as Δ0\Delta_0-induction for the compositional truth predicate, hence non-conservative. On the other hand, it can be shown with a routine argument that the principle of quantifier-free correctness is itself conservative.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2011.06940,
  title  = {Compositional truth with propositional tautologies and quantifier-free correctness},
  author = {Bartosz Wcisło},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2011.06940},
  year   = {2020}
}
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