completeness

English

Etymology

complete + -ness

Noun

completeness (usually uncountable, plural completenesses)

  1. the state or condition of being complete
  2. (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 Invalid 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) [...]

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