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Is it a special feature of Peano axioms that Godel can prove incompleteness from them?
Robert Walker
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Answered Jul 18, 2014
Just to add a - fairly minor - detail - you don't need full Peano axioms. You don't need full induction.
It's enough to have a recursive definition of addition and multiplication.
Robinson arithmetic
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