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LemmaStatement: AI-adaptedProof: AI-generatedPipeline-generated
How statement and proof provenance work

The first chip identifies the source of the statement or construction; the second identifies the source of its local proof or verification.

  • Literature-sourced: the exact statement appears in a cited source; only wording and notation differ.
  • AI-adapted: a semantically identical restatement of literature-sourced material, modulo indexing, notation, and boundary cases adopted by the library.
  • AI-generated: a genuinely novel statement formulated by AI, with no source for the claim itself.

These labels describe origin, not correctness: citations and verification chips remain separate evidence.

Finite reflection along constructible levels

Statement

In ZF, for each fixed finite family Φ of membership formulas and ordinal α, there is a nonzero limit β>α such that, for every ϕΦ and tuple a from Lβ, (Lβ,)ϕ[a] iff ϕL(a). This is a scheme for fixed formulas; it does not assume that L satisfies ZF.

Facts & Assumptions

Given: ZF; fixed finite formula family. The general-class clause of published reflection is applicable before L models ZF; its full proof was read and its limit-stage and choice-free witness-bound construction checked.

[F1]

Transitivity, growth, ordinals and rank in L: The L levels are increasing transitive sets, continuous at nonzero limits; their definable union is the nonempty class L.

[F2]

Montague–Lévy reflection for a finite formula family: General definable-class reflection applies without assuming internal ZF in W; its proof produces beta as a strictly increasing omega-sequence supremum.

Proof

1.1

Use Wγ=Lγ and W=L. The recursive definition supplies uniform definability, the limit definition supplies continuity, and F1 supplies monotonicity and nonemptiness. Every element of W belongs to a level by definition. These are precisely the general-class hypotheses of F2.

F1F2
2.1

Apply the construction in F2 to the finite subformula closure of Φ, starting above α and above zero. It bounds the least witness stages for tuples in each set level using ambient Replacement, iterates that definable bound through omega, and takes the supremum β. Strict increase makes β a nonzero limit. Each finite tuple lies in a stage of this sequence, so every true existential in the closed family has a witness before β; the witness criterion in F2 gives agreement in both directions. All these are ambient ZF operations, and no internal Replacement or satisfaction predicate for the whole class L is presumed.

F2step 1.1

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