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Gödel, constructivity, impredicativity, and feasibility

Jean Fichot

pp. 198-213

Abstract

This paper does not pretend to be an exhaustive survey of Gödel's interpretation of intuitionism. This long and rather complicated story has already been told and analyzed by others, for instance in (Kreisel 1987b) and (Tait 2006a, b). More modestly, our first aim here is to present a different appearance of a ghost during that story, the one of impredicativity, and to show that only one case is to be taken seriously from a strict anti-realist point of view: the impredicativity of the concept of natural number. This leads to our second aim, which is to present some of the feasible versions of Gödel's Dialectica interpretation.

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Boldini Pascal, Bourdeau Michel, Heinzmann Gerhard (2008) One hundred years of intuitionism (1907–2007): the Cerisy conference. Dordrecht, Springer.

Pages: 198-213

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-7643-8653-5_13

Full citation:

Fichot Jean (2008) „Gödel, constructivity, impredicativity, and feasibility“, In: P. Boldini, M. Bourdeau & G. Heinzmann (eds.), One hundred years of intuitionism (1907–2007), Dordrecht, Springer, 198–213.