satisfiability
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logical calculi
- In metalogic: Logic and metalogic
…all possible worlds) and of satisfiability (or having a model—i.e., being true in some particular interpretation). Hence, the completeness of a logical calculus has quite a different meaning from that of a formal system: a logical calculus permits many sentences such that neither the sentence nor its negation is a…
Read More - In metalogic: The first-order predicate calculus
…valid; and, therefore, A is satisfiable; i.e., it has an interpretation, or a model. But to say that A is consistent means nothing other than that ∼A is not a theorem. Hence, from the completeness, it follows that if A is consistent, then A is satisfiable. Therefore, the semantic concepts…
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model theory
- In metalogic: Satisfaction of a theory by a structure: finite and infinite models
A realization of a language (for example, the one based on L) is a structure 𝔄 identified by the six elements so arrangedin which the second term is a function that assigns a member…
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