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- From: alliot@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr (Jean-Marc Alliot)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: Equivalence of Strong completeness and categoricity
- Message-ID: <1992Jul22.205827.16651@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr>
- Date: 22 Jul 92 20:58:27 GMT
- Sender: news@cenatls.cena.dgac.fr
- Organization: Centre d'Etudes de la Navigation Aerienne, Toulouse, France
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- This question is perhaps trivial but...
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- I am first going to give the definition I am using, since many people
- use the same words for different things:
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- Consistency: A system is consistent if, for any wff F, we
- can not have at the same time (F is a theorem) and (not F is a
- theorem).
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- Categoricity: a system is categoric if, for any wff F, we have either
- (F is theorem) or (not F is a theorem).
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- Strong completeness: a system based on a set S of axioms is strongly
- complete if for any wff F, we have either (F is a theorem) or (F added
- to S is an inconsistent system).
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-
- Now the questions:
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- 1) It seems quite clear that in any system which is a superset of
- propositional calculus Categoricity and Strong completeness are
- equivalent. However a short and clear demonstration would be very much
- welcome.
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- 2) Does the property hold in the general case (I especially think of
- intuitionist logic) ?
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- If the question is too trivial, a reference to a book giving the
- answers would be also welcome.
-