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Godel-Rosser's Incompleteness Theorems for Non-Recursively Enumerable Theories

Logic 2019-07-02 v3 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

Godel's First Incompleteness Theorem is generalized to definable theories, which are not necessarily recursively enumerable, by using a couple of syntactic-semantic notions, one is the consistency of a theory with the set of all true Πn\Pi_n-sentences or equivalently the Σn\Sigma_n-soundness of the theory, and the other is nn-consistency the restriction of ω\omega-consistency to the Σn\Sigma_n-formulas. It is also shown that Rosser's Incompleteness Theorem does not generally hold for definable non-recursively enumerable theories, whence Godel-Rosser's Incompleteness Theorem is optimal in a sense. Though the proof of the incompleteness theorem using the Σn\Sigma_n-soundness assumption is constructive, it is shown that there is no constructive proof for the incompleteness theorem using the nn-consistency assumption, for n ⁣> ⁣2n\!>\!2.

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@article{arxiv.1506.02790,
  title  = {Godel-Rosser's Incompleteness Theorems for Non-Recursively Enumerable Theories},
  author = {Saeed Salehi and Payam Seraji},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1506.02790},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

Journal of Logic and Computation (2016) "G\"odel-Rosser's Incompleteness Theorem, generalized and optimized for definable theories"