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  1. Hilbert’s Finitism: Historical, Philosophical, and Metamathematical Perspectives.Richard Zach - 2001 - Dissertation, University of California, Berkeley
    In the 1920s, David Hilbert proposed a research program with the aim of providing mathematics with a secure foundation. This was to be accomplished by first formalizing logic and mathematics in their entirety, and then showing---using only so-called finitistic principles---that these formalizations are free of contradictions. ;In the area of logic, the Hilbert school accomplished major advances both in introducing new systems of logic, and in developing central metalogical notions, such as completeness and decidability. The analysis of unpublished material presented (...)
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  • (4 other versions)Epsilon substitution method for< i> ID< sub> 1(< i> Π< sub> 1< sup> 0∨< i> Σ_< sub> 1< sup> 0). [REVIEW]Toshiyasu Arai - 2003 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 121 (2):163-208.
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  • A constructive analysis of learning in Peano Arithmetic.Federico Aschieri - 2012 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 163 (11):1448-1470.
    We give a constructive analysis of learning as it arises in various computational interpretations of classical Peano Arithmetic, such as Aschieri and Berardi learning based realizability, Avigad’s update procedures and epsilon substitution method. In particular, we show how to compute in Gödel’s system T upper bounds on the length of learning processes, which are themselves represented in T through learning based realizability. The result is achieved by the introduction of a new non standard model of Gödel’s T, whose new basic (...)
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  • Existence Assumptions and Logical Principles: Choice Operators in Intuitionistic Logic.Corey Edward Mulvihill - 2015 - Dissertation, University of Waterloo
    Hilbert’s choice operators τ and ε, when added to intuitionistic logic, strengthen it. In the presence of certain extensionality axioms they produce classical logic, while in the presence of weaker decidability conditions for terms they produce various superintuitionistic intermediate logics. In this thesis, I argue that there are important philosophical lessons to be learned from these results. To make the case, I begin with a historical discussion situating the development of Hilbert’s operators in relation to his evolving program in the (...)
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  • (4 other versions)Epsilon substitution method for ID1.Toshiyasu Arai - 2003 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 121 (2-3):163-208.
    Hilbert proposed the epsilon substitution method as a basis for consistency proofs. Hilbert's Ansatz for finding a solving substitution for any given finite set of transfinite axioms is, starting with the null substitution S0, to correct false values step by step and thereby generate the process S0,S1,… . The problem is to show that the approximating process terminates. After Gentzen's innovation, Ackermann 162) succeeded to prove termination of the process for first order arithmetic. Inspired by G. Mints as an Ariadne's (...)
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  • (4 other versions)Epsilon Substitution Method for [image] -FIX.Toshiyasu Arai - 2006 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 71 (4):1155 - 1188.
    In this paper we formulate epsilon substitution method for a theory $\Pi _{2}^{0}$-FIX for non-monotonic $\Pi _{2}^{0}$ inductive definitions. Then we give a termination proof of the H-processes based on Ackermann [1].
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  • Epsilon substitution for first- and second-order predicate logic.Grigori Mints - 2013 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 164 (6):733-739.
    The epsilon substitution method was proposed by D. Hilbert as a tool for consistency proofs. A version for first order predicate logic had been described and proved to terminate in the monograph “Grundlagen der Mathematik”. As far as the author knows, there have been no attempts to extend this approach to the second order case. We discuss possible directions for and obstacles to such extensions.
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  • Cut elimination for a simple formulation of epsilon calculus.Grigori Mints - 2008 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 152 (1):148-160.
    A simple cut elimination proof for arithmetic with the epsilon symbol is used to establish the termination of a modified epsilon substitution process. This opens a possibility of extension to much stronger systems.
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  • Epsilon substitution method for theories of jump hierarchies.Toshiyasu Arai - 2002 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 41 (2):123-153.
    We formulate epsilon substitution method for theories (H)α0 of absolute jump hierarchies, and give two termination proofs of the H-process: The first proof is an adaption of Mints M, Mints-Tupailo-Buchholz MTB, i.e., based on a cut-elimination of a specially devised infinitary calculus. The second one is an adaption of Ackermann Ack. Each termination proof is based on transfinite induction up to an ordinal θ(α0+ ω)0, which is best possible.
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  • The practice of finitism: Epsilon calculus and consistency proofs in Hilbert's program.Richard Zach - 2003 - Synthese 137 (1-2):211 - 259.
    After a brief flirtation with logicism around 1917, David Hilbertproposed his own program in the foundations of mathematics in 1920 and developed it, in concert with collaborators such as Paul Bernays andWilhelm Ackermann, throughout the 1920s. The two technical pillars of the project were the development of axiomatic systems for everstronger and more comprehensive areas of mathematics, and finitisticproofs of consistency of these systems. Early advances in these areaswere made by Hilbert (and Bernays) in a series of lecture courses atthe (...)
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  • (1 other version)Strong termination for the epsilon substitution method.Grigori Mints - 1996 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 61 (4):1193-1205.
    Ackermann proved termination for a special order of reductions in Hilbert's epsilon substitution method for the first order arithmetic. We establish termination for arbitrary order of reductions.
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  • Epsilon substitution for $$\textit{ID}_1$$ ID 1 via cut-elimination.Henry Towsner - 2018 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 57 (5-6):497-531.
    The \-substitution method is a technique for giving consistency proofs for theories of arithmetic. We use this technique to give a proof of the consistency of the impredicative theory \ using a variant of the cut-elimination formalism introduced by Mints.
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  • 1998–99 Annual Meeting of the Association for Symbolic Logic.Sam Buss - 1999 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 5 (3):395-421.
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  • (4 other versions)Epsilon substitution method for [Π0 1, Π0 1]-FIX.T. Arai - 2005 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 44 (8):1009-1043.
    We formulate epsilon substitution method for a theory [Π0 1, Π0 1]-FIX for two steps non-monotonic Π0 1 inductive definitions. Then we give a termination proof of the H-processes based on Ackermann [1].
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  • Ackermann’s substitution method.Georg Moser - 2006 - Annals of Pure and Applied Logic 142 (1):1-18.
    We aim at a conceptually clear and technically smooth investigation of Ackermann’s substitution method [W. Ackermann, Zur Widerspruchsfreiheit der Zahlentheorie, Math. Ann. 117 162–194]. Our analysis provides a direct classification of the provably recursive functions of , i.e. Peano Arithmetic framed in the ε-calculus.
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  • Thoralf Skolem and the epsilon substitution method for predicate logic.Grigori Mints - 1996 - Nordic Journal of Philosophical Logic 1 (2):133-146.
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  • Epsilon substitution for transfinite induction.Henry Towsner - 2005 - Archive for Mathematical Logic 44 (4):397-412.
    We apply Mints’ technique for proving the termination of the epsilon substitution method via cut-elimination to the system of Peano Arithmetic with Transfinite Induction given by Arai.
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  • 2005 annual meeting of the association for symbolic logic.Ilijas Farah, Deirdre Haskell, Andrey Morozov, Vladimir Pestov & Jindrich Zapletal - 2006 - Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 12 (1):143.
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  • Cut-elimination for simple type theory with an axiom of choice.G. Mints - 1999 - Journal of Symbolic Logic 64 (2):479-485.
    We present a cut-elimination proof for simple type theory with an axiom of choice formulated in the language with an epsilon-symbol. The proof is modeled after Takahashi's proof of cut-elimination for simple type theory with extensionality. The same proof works when types are restricted, for example for second-order classical logic with an axiom of choice.
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  • Von neumann’s consistency proof.Luca Bellotti - 2016 - Review of Symbolic Logic 9 (3):429-455.
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