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Burgess’ PV is Robinson’s Q

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Mihai Ganea
Mihai Ganea*
Affiliation:
Department of Philosophy, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60607-7114, USA, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

In [2] John Burgess describes predicative versions of Frege's logic and poses the problem of finding their exact arithmetical strength. I prove here that PV, the simplest such theory, is equivalent to Robinson's arithmetical theory Q.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 72 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 619 - 624
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2007

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