Disjunction Property Implies Existence Property
In 1974 Harvey Friedman proved that in any recursively enumerable extension of intuitionistic arithmetic, the converse of the above also holds. Throughout the following discussion assume is such an extension of arithmetic. Harvey Friedman's proof is quite intricate, making of self-referential sentences in a similar way to the one used in the proof of the incompleteness theorem. They key step is to find a bound on the existential quantifier because bounded existential formula can be written as a disjunction,
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However, given an arbitrary existential formula, can we hope to replace it by a bounded one?
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