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Finitist

Noun

Definitionen

1.NounA proponent of finitism.
2.AdjectiveOf or relating to finitism.
"Primitive recursive arithmetic, or PRA, is a quantifier-free formalization of the natural numbers. It was first proposed by Skolem as a formalization of his finitist conception of the foundations of arithmetic, and it is widely agreed that all reasoning of PRA is finitist. Many also believe that all of finitism is captured by PRA, but others believe finitism can be extended to forms of recursion beyond primitive recursion, up to ε0, which is the proof-theoretic ordinal of Peano arithmetic. PRA's proof theoretic ordinal is ω, where ω is the smallest transfinite ordinal. PRA is sometimes called Skolem arithmetic."
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