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Principle of Induction for the Natural Numbers

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Reason: Initial publication. Supplies the induction axiom missing from def:natural-numbers-2026a, as the sole new primitive of the elementary arithmetic layer underpinning the group theory chain. · 309 chars · 1 dep · depth 2

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Let N\mathbb{N} be the set of natural numbers, with successor map SS as in that definition. We take as an axiom the following principle of induction.

If ANA\subseteq\mathbb{N} satisfies

  1. 1A1\in A, and
  2. S(n)AS(n)\in A for every nAn\in A,

then A=NA=\mathbb{N}.

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