Propositions in Prepositional Logic Provable Only by Indirect Proofs

Mathematical Logic Quarterly 44 (1):69-91 (1998)
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In this paper it is shown that addition of certain reductions to the standard cut removing reductions of deductions in prepositional logic makes prepositional logic non-normalizable. From this follows that some provable propositions in prepositional logic has no direct proof

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