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Single Idea 10898

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Full Idea

The semantic pattern of a first-order language is the ways in which truth values depend on which individuals instantiate the properties and relations which figure in them. ..So we pair a truth value with each combination of individuals, sets etc.

Gist of Idea

The semantics shows how truth values depend on instantiations of properties and relations

Source

José L. Zalabardo (Introduction to the Theory of Logic [2000], §3.3)

Book Ref

Zalabardo,José L.: 'Introduction to the Theory of Logic' [Westview 2000], p.90

A Reaction

So truth reduces to a combination of 'instantiations', which is rather like 'satisfaction'.

The 18 ideas from José L. Zalabardo

10886 Determinacy: an object is either in a set, or it isn't [Zalabardo]
10887 Specification: Determinate totals of objects always make a set [Zalabardo]
10888 Sets can be defined by 'enumeration', or by 'abstraction' (based on a property) [Zalabardo]
10889 The 'Cartesian Product' of two sets relates them by pairing every element with every element [Zalabardo]
10890 A 'partial ordering' is reflexive, antisymmetric and transitive [Zalabardo]
10891 If a set is defined by induction, then proof by induction can be applied to it [Zalabardo]
10893 Γ |= φ for sentences if φ is true when all of Γ is true [Zalabardo]
10892 We make a truth assignment to T and F, which may be true and false, but merely differ from one another [Zalabardo]
10894 A sentence-set is 'satisfiable' if at least one truth-assignment makes them all true [Zalabardo]
10895 'Logically true' (|= φ) is true for every truth-assignment [Zalabardo]
10896 Propositional logic just needs ¬, and one of ∧, ∨ and → [Zalabardo]
10897 A first-order 'sentence' is a formula with no free variables [Zalabardo]
10898 The semantics shows how truth values depend on instantiations of properties and relations [Zalabardo]
10901 Some formulas are 'satisfiable' if there is a structure and interpretation that makes them true [Zalabardo]
10900 Logically true sentences are true in all structures [Zalabardo]
10899 Γ |= φ if φ is true when all of Γ is true, for all structures and interpretations [Zalabardo]
10903 A structure models a sentence if it is true in the model, and a set of sentences if they are all true in the model [Zalabardo]
10902 We can do semantics by looking at given propositions, or by building new ones [Zalabardo]