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Gödel’s completeness theorem
logic
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history of logic
- In history of logic: Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
…Gödel’s proof of the semantic completeness of first-order logic in 1930. Improved versions of the completeness of first-order logic were subsequently presented by various researchers, among them the American mathematician Leon Henkin and the Dutch logician Evert W. Beth.
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mathematics
- In foundations of mathematics: Gödel and category theory
Gödel’s completeness theorem, generalized to intuitionistic type theory, may now be stated as follows: A closed formula of ℒ is a theorem if and only if it is true in every model of ℒ.
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metalogic
- In metalogic: The completeness theorem
Gödel’s original proof of the completeness theorem is closely related to the second proof above. Consideration may again be given to all the sentences in (5) that contain no more quantifiers. If they are all satisfiable, then, as before, they are simultaneously satisfiable…
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