[FOM] Gentzen and finitism

Robert Black mongre at gmx.de
Tue Feb 2 18:32:21 EST 2010


Gentzen's proof of the consistency of PA requires (over PRA) induction 
up to epsilon_0. But what about Gentzen's "Hauptsatz", i.e. the cut 
elimination theorem for pure first-order logic? It's obviously 
constructive, but involves a rather complicated double induction. Does 
it go through in PRA?
If not, PRA plus induction up to what?

Robert Black



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