Supporting results for pointwise provable equality.
The manuscript's range obstruction via Gödel's second incompleteness theorem. A program that outputs zero on codes of proofs of contradiction agrees pointwise with the empty program. Its range at zero encodes the existence of a contradiction proof. Craig's presentation removes the Delta-one axiom-presentation hypothesis.
The positive proof-of-contradiction predicate of the chosen presentation.
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Consistency refutes each fixed proof code in PA, including the Sigma-one form.
Universal absence of contradiction proofs would establish the theory's own consistency, which Gödel's second incompleteness theorem excludes.
The manuscript's zero-output proof probe is pointwise empty, but its range program is not pointwise equal to the empty program's range.
A quotient range operation would contradict the concrete Gödel-II witnesses.
Deductive equivalence transports the same natural-number witnesses. The chosen range indices depend on their programs, not on the theory presentation.
For every consistent recursively axiomatized extension of PA, range assignment fails to preserve the external pointwise relation.
The range assignment does not descend to the quotient in the manuscript's full recursively enumerable axiom setting.
The explicit axiom-program enumeration used in the manuscript suffices.
No quotient range operation exists for an explicitly enumerated axiom set.
The proof-of-contradiction probe supplies the obstruction already over PA.
The range assignment does not descend to the external pointwise quotient of PA.