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58 Post author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 30 October 2012 01:02PM

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Comment author: Bakkot 29 October 2012 06:29:19AM 12 points [-]

I happen to be studying model theory at the moment. For anyone curious, when Eliezer say 'If X ⊢ Y, then X ⊨ Y' (that is, if a model proves a statement, that statement is true in the model), this is known as soundness. The converse is completeness, or more specifically semantic completeness, which says that if a statement is true in every model of a theory (in other words, in every possible world where that theory is true), then there is a finite proof of the statement. In symbols this is 'If X ⊨ Y, then X ⊢ Y'. Note that this notion of 'completeness' is not the one used in Gödel's incompleteness theorems.

Comment author: Eliezer_Yudkowsky 29 October 2012 07:41:05AM 6 points [-]

I plan to talk about this in some posts on second-order logic.