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Atomless varieties

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Yde Venema
Yde Venema*
Affiliation:
Institute of Logic, Language and Computation, University of Amsterdam, Plantage Muidergracht 24, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

We define a nontrivial variety of boolean algebras with operators such that every member of the variety is atomless. This shows that not every variety of boolean algebras with operators is generated by its atomic members, and thus establishes a strong incompleteness result in (multi-)modal logic.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 607 - 614
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2003

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