completeness
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[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]- completenesse (obsolete)
Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]completeness (usually uncountable, plural completenesses)
- The state or condition of being complete.
- (logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
- 2002, Stephen Cole Kleene, Mathematical Logic, Mineola, New York: Dover Publications, →ISBN, page 314:
- THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
(a) If [or even if -], then . If [or even if -], then .
(b) […]
- THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H:
Synonyms
[edit]- (state of being complete): completion, fulfillment; see also Thesaurus:completion
Antonyms
[edit]- incompleteness, unfinishedness; see also Thesaurus:incompletion
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]state or condition of being complete
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