• Re: Question about the fixed point lemma

    From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic on Mon Sep 28 11:34:52 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 06/25/2015 06:00 PM, X.Y. Newberry wrote:
    George Greene wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 9:41:07 PM UTC-4, Newberry wrote:
    Furthermore Enderton states that in PA and even in PA minus induction
    the diagonal lemma is provable, i.e.

    |- sigma <--> beta(#sigma)

    "PA minus induction" is generally called "Robinson Arithmetic"; that
    system
    is often denoted by a capital Q, and it seems to be THE WEAKEST system
    that
    is STRONG enough to prove the diagonal lemma. PLEASE SEE here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_arithmetic#Metamathematics


    If I am reading it correctly he means that every instance of this schema >>> is provable.

    That's right; it's provable for every definable unary predicate beta(.).

    I of course claim that there are logics where
    the diagonal lemma does not hold.

    That claim is hardly original with you.

    Would you care to share with us the original claim?

    We were just talking about standard classical vanilla first-order logic.
    But any system strong enough to make all these recursive functions
    representable
    will allow the proof to through.




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  • From Ross Finlayson@ross.a.finlayson@gmail.com to sci.logic on Tue Sep 29 09:47:01 2026
    From Newsgroup: sci.logic

    On 09/28/2026 11:34 AM, Ross Finlayson wrote:
    On 06/25/2015 06:00 PM, X.Y. Newberry wrote:
    George Greene wrote:
    On Wednesday, June 24, 2015 at 9:41:07 PM UTC-4, Newberry wrote:
    Furthermore Enderton states that in PA and even in PA minus induction
    the diagonal lemma is provable, i.e.

    |- sigma <--> beta(#sigma)

    "PA minus induction" is generally called "Robinson Arithmetic"; that
    system
    is often denoted by a capital Q, and it seems to be THE WEAKEST system
    that
    is STRONG enough to prove the diagonal lemma. PLEASE SEE here:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_arithmetic#Metamathematics


    If I am reading it correctly he means that every instance of this
    schema
    is provable.

    That's right; it's provable for every definable unary predicate beta(.). >>>
    I of course claim that there are logics where
    the diagonal lemma does not hold.

    That claim is hardly original with you.

    Would you care to share with us the original claim?

    We were just talking about standard classical vanilla first-order logic. >>> But any system strong enough to make all these recursive functions
    representable
    will allow the proof to through.






    Induction can be arrived at via inverse from the outset.

    Induction, the naive, always admits counter-induction besides
    co-induction, then for simply classifying where counter- and
    co-induction do or don't exist, besides the naive where it's
    also "co-" and ignores "counter-".


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