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Single Idea 10161

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / K. Features of Logics / 4. Completeness ]

Full Idea

Completeness is when, if a sentences holds in every model of a theory, then it is logically derivable from that theory.

Gist of Idea

If a sentence holds in every model of a theory, then it is logically derivable from the theory

Source

Feferman / Feferman (Alfred Tarski: life and logic [2004], Int V)

Book Ref

Feferman,S/Feferman,A.B.: 'Alfred Tarski: life and logic' [CUP 2008], p.281


The 12 ideas from Feferman / Feferman

'Recursion theory' concerns what can be solved by computing machines [Feferman/Feferman]
The Axiom of Choice is consistent with the other axioms of set theory [Feferman/Feferman]
Axiom of Choice: a set exists which chooses just one element each of any set of sets [Feferman/Feferman]
Platonist will accept the Axiom of Choice, but others want criteria of selection or definition [Feferman/Feferman]
The Trichotomy Principle is equivalent to the Axiom of Choice [Feferman/Feferman]
Cantor's theories needed the Axiom of Choice, but it has led to great controversy [Feferman/Feferman]
Both Principia Mathematica and Peano Arithmetic are undecidable [Feferman/Feferman]
A structure is a 'model' when the axioms are true. So which of the structures are models? [Feferman/Feferman]
Tarski and Vaught established the equivalence relations between first-order structures [Feferman/Feferman]
Löwenheim-Skolem says if the sentences are countable, so is the model [Feferman/Feferman]
Löwenheim-Skolem Theorem, and Gödel's completeness of first-order logic, the earliest model theory [Feferman/Feferman]
If a sentence holds in every model of a theory, then it is logically derivable from the theory [Feferman/Feferman]