Towards Concise, Machine-discovered Proofs of Gödel's Two Incompleteness Theorems

Abstract

There is an increasing interest in applying recent advances in AI to automated reasoning, as it may provide useful heuristics in reasoning over formalisms in first-order, second-order, or even meta-logics. To facilitate this research, we present MATR, a new framework for automated theorem proving explicitly designed to easily adapt to unusual logics or integrate new reasoning processes. MATR is formalism-agnostic, highly modular, and programmer-friendly. We explain the high-level design of MATR as well as some details of its implementation. To demonstrate MATR's utility, we then describe a formalized metalogic suitable for proofs of G\"odel's Incompleteness Theorems, and report on our progress using our metalogic in MATR to semi-autonomously generate proofs of both the First and Second Incompleteness Theorems.

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