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.
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Parallel Henkinization for arbitrary set languages
Statement
In ZF, every consistent sentence theory in a set-sized first-order language admits a canonical tagged -stage expansion with a seed constant and Henkin witness axioms. Every finite collection of added axioms is consistent with , and the union theory is consistent and has a witness axiom for every existential sentence in the union language. No well-ordering of the language is required.
Facts & Assumptions
Fresh constants may be eliminated from a finite proof makes any pure set-sized fresh-constant expansion conservative for original sentences.
Adding one fresh witness preserves consistency preserves consistency on adding when is absent from the theory and from .
Finite support, weakening, and composition of derivations says any derivation has finite assumption support and permits weakening.
Proof
Given: A consistent sentence theory in a set-sized language .
First embed into a disjoint tagged copy, so that further tags cannot collide with original symbols. Adjoin one distinguished seed constant to get . Given , introduce a different constant for each existential -sentence , and put . These are sets since finite strings on a set form a set; tagging by is injective. Let be all sentences . Set and . The stage recursion uses uniquely specified sets, not choices of an enumeration.
Fix a finite subset of the added axioms, and list it in nondecreasing stage order, ordering each finite same-stage block arbitrarily. Starting from , first use F1 to allow all constants of except the finitely many designated witness constants in this list. This is a consistent pure expansion. When adding an axiom at stage , its designated constant occurs neither in , nor in an earlier-stage axiom, nor in the matrix of any other axiom at stage : those matrices are in , whereas the new constants were introduced in . It is therefore fresh in the current theory and its matrix. F2 adjoins it with its axiom preserving consistency. After finitely many additions every axiom of has been added and the language is . Thus is consistent in the union language.
If were inconsistent, F3 would give a finite proof using only finitely many axioms from the sets . These form a finite as in step 2.1, contradicting its consistency. Hence is consistent. Every existential -sentence uses finitely many symbols, each introduced at some finite stage; the maximum of those finitely many stages places the sentence in some . Its witness axiom is then in . The seed ensures a closed term even when the original language has no constants, and the empty finite set of new axioms is covered by F1. QED.
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Sources
- Moschovakis, Lecture Notes in Logic, Lemma 1I.4, pp. 40–41; local simultaneous set-language expansion (standard reference, not scraped)