Peano Arithmetic & Gödel — Part 6: Gödel's Completeness Theorem

Mathematics Foundations / Logic Source: Gödel 1930, Henkin Cite
Primary: Kurt Gödel
Publication: Completeness theorem for FOL
Year: 1929
URL: Wikipedia

Description

Gödel's Completeness Theorem: T ⊨ φ iff T ⊢ φ. Every consistent first-order theory has a model. Proof via Henkin construction: extend to maximal consistent Henkin theory, build term model.

Source: Gödel, Über die Vollständigkeit des Logikkalküls (1930); Henkin, The completeness of the first-order functional calculus (1949)

Dependency Flowchart

graph TD RefSound["Ref: Soundness (Part 4)"] DefConsistent["Def: T consistent iff T ⊬ ⊥"] DefMaxCons["Def: Maximal consistent: T maximal, consistent"] LemLindenbaum["Lem: Lindenbaum: every consistent T extends to maximal consistent Δ"] DefHenkin["Def: Henkin theory: ∃xφ ∈ Δ ⇒ φ(c/x) ∈ Δ for some constant c"] LemHenkinExt["Lem: Every consistent T extends to Henkin theory T' in expanded language"] LemTermModel["Lem: From maximal Henkin T'', build term model M: |M| = closed terms, truth = membership"] ThmCompleteness["Thm: Completeness: T consistent ⇒ T has model"] CorCompact["Cor: Compactness: T ⊨ φ ⇒ finite T₀ ⊆ T with T₀ ⊨ φ"] RefSound --> ThmCompleteness DefConsistent --> DefMaxCons DefMaxCons --> LemLindenbaum LemLindenbaum --> LemHenkinExt DefHenkin --> LemHenkinExt LemHenkinExt --> LemTermModel LemTermModel --> ThmCompleteness ThmCompleteness --> CorCompact classDef definition fill:#b197fc,color:#fff,stroke:#9775fa classDef lemma fill:#74c0fc,color:#fff,stroke:#4dabf7 classDef theorem fill:#51cf66,color:#fff,stroke:#40c057 classDef corollary fill:#1abc9c,color:#fff,stroke:#16a085 classDef ref fill:#bdc3c7,color:#333,stroke:#95a5a6 class RefSound ref class DefConsistent,DefMaxCons,DefHenkin definition class LemLindenbaum,LemHenkinExt,LemTermModel lemma class ThmCompleteness theorem class CorCompact corollary

Color Scheme

Purple Definitions
Blue Lemmas
Teal Theorems
Green Corollaries
Gray References

Process Statistics

  • Nodes: 10
  • Edges: 11
  • Axioms: 0
  • Definitions: 3
  • Lemmas: 3
  • Theorems: 1
  • Corollaries: 1
  • References: 1