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Formal topologies on the set of first-order formulae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Thierry Coquand ,
Sara Sadocco ,
Giovanni Sambin  and
Jan M. Smith
Thierry Coquand
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, Chalmers andUniversity of Göteborg, S- Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]
Sara Sadocco
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica, Universita' di Siena, Via Del Capitano 15, 53100 Siena, Italy E-mail: [email protected]
Giovanni Sambin
Affiliation:
Dipartimento di Matematica Pura e Applicata, Universita' Di Padova, Via Belzoni 7, 35141 Padova, Italy E-mail: [email protected]
Jan M. Smith
Affiliation:
Department of Computing Science, Chalmers and University of Göteborg, S- Göteborg, Sweden E-mail: [email protected]
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The completeness proof for first-order logic by Rasiowa and Sikorski [13] is a simplification of Henkin's proof [7] in that it avoids the addition of infinitely many new individual constants. Instead they show that each consistent set of formulae can be extended to a maximally consistent set, satisfying the following existence property: if it contains (∃x)ϕ it also contains some substitution ϕ(y/x) of a variable y for x. In Feferman's review [5] of [13], an improvement, due to Tarski, is given by which the proof gets a simple algebraic form.

Sambin [16] used the same method in the setting of formal topology [15], thereby obtaining a constructive completeness proof. This proof is elementary and can be seen as a constructive and predicative version of the one in Feferman's review. It is a typical, and simple, example where the use of formal topology gives constructive sense to the existence of a generic object, satisfying some forcing conditions; in this case an ultrafilter satisfying the existence property.

In order to get a formal topology on the set of first-order formulae, Sambin used the Dedekind-MacNeille completion to define a covering relation ⊲DM. This method, by which an arbitrary poset can be extended to a complete poset, was introduced by MacNeille [9] and is a generalization of the construction of real numbers from rationals by Dedekind cuts. It is also possible to define an inductive cover, ⊲I, on the set of formulae, which can also be used to give canonical models, see Coquand and Smith [3].

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 65 , Issue 3 , September 2000 , pp. 1183 - 1192
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2000

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