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17.2. UNDECIDABLE SENTENCES 225<br />

Such a G T is called a Gödel sentence for T , <strong>and</strong> such an R T a Rosser sentence for<br />

T .ThusaGödel sentence ‘says of itself that’ it is unprovable, <strong>and</strong> a Rosser sentence<br />

‘says of itself that’ if there is a witness to its provability, then there is an earlier witness<br />

to its disprovability.<br />

17.8 Theorem. Let T be a consistent, axiomatizable extension of Q. Then a Rosser<br />

sentence for T is undecidable for T .<br />

Proof: Suppose the Rosser sentence R T is provable in T . Then there is some a<br />

that witnesses the provability of R T . Since T is consistent, ∼R T is not also provable,<br />

<strong>and</strong> so no m witnesses the disprovability of R T , <strong>and</strong> in particular, no m < n does so.<br />

It follows that the rudimentary sentence<br />

Prf T ( R T , n)&∼∃z

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