# Are the Godel's incompleteness theorems valid for both classical and intuitionistic logic?

I am studying an undergraduate text about math logic. The proofs of the two Godel's incompleteness theorems are not completely formal: they are admittedly simpler that the real proofs. For what I understood, I deduce the two theorems are valid for both classical and intuitionistic logic.

Is my deduction correct?

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as i mentioned in similar question in phil.SE, this is correct only for IL formalised as an alternative classical logic (with modification of syntax rules) and then terated as a formal suntax system. But this is not intuitionism, the difference lies in semamtics (although this is overlooked in formal approaches to logic). –  Nikos M. May 3 at 17:19
In fact Brewer foresaw the incompletenes theorems of Goedels when accepted propositions which can neither be proved nor refuted in intiotionism (up to current knowledge), in tjis sense incompleteness theorems are already embeded in intuitionism from the start. One has to be aware of a classical /syntactic treatment of a logic (e.g intuitionistic) and the actual philosophy like intuitionism which has tio do with semantics –  Nikos M. May 3 at 17:19
a nice post "Gödel’s Proof and Intuitionism" in the same direction and meaning as my previous comments (similar question on phil.SE) –  Nikos M. May 3 at 17:51

The usual proof of Gödel's First Incompleteness Theorem is entirely constructive. We don't have to rely on excluded middle, or have to rely on proving an existential quantification for which we can't produce a witness. For recall: the proof consists in (a) giving a recipe which takes a suitable specification of a sufficiently strong theory $T$ and constructs a certain sentence $G_T$ and then (b) showing $G_T$ is undecidable in that theory. The construction of $G_T$ is clever though simple when you see how, and involves no infinitary ideas. The proof of undecidability involves a pair of reductios, but both of the non-contentious type [like "Suppose $T \vdash G_T$: then contradiction; so $T \nvdash G_T$"]. So overall the proof is intuitionistically acceptable.