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Attempts to accommodate theories of different consistency strength in single assistant

You could address your goals by using a generic proof assistant, one that supports user-definable theories, such as Isabelle and Metamath, and I am sure there are others. These allow you to define ...
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How "generic" are "generic proof assistants"?

Isabelle/Sequents contains a formalisation of intuitionistic linear logic, so conceivably you have a chance of implementing your logic in Isabelle, following the techniques used there. Whether what ...
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Can this Free Logic prove everything ZFC can?

Free logic is nowhere close to how mathematicians "do things", and neither is ZFC. Proof assistants are our best attempt to provide a rigorous environment that faithfully reflects how ...
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How does a logical framework become a meta-logical framework?

Let me try taking a stab at a few provisional definitions. I can make these arbitrarily rigorous, but being fully general makes it hard to see the forest for the trees (at least, for me). Provisional ...
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