Review: H. Jerome Keisler, Model Theory for Infinitary Logic. Logic with Countable Conjunctions and Finite Quantifiers
Review: H. Jerome Keisler, Model Theory for Infinitary Logic. Logic with Countable Conjunctions and Finite Quantifiers
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评论:H. Jerome Keisler,无限逻辑模型理论。
DOI:
10.2307/2273064
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发表时间:
1973
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0.6
通讯作者:
E. López
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作者:
E. López
(BR) and the Godel-Mal'cev theorem (GM) for propositional calculus (which says that every formally consistent set of formulas is satisfiable). The proof that BR implies GM is only briefly sketched as it follows closely the line of argument used in Rasiowa and Sikorski's XVII 72. For the proof that GM implies BR Henkin constructs explicitly, for a given Boolean algebra 21, a propositional calculus />« whose set of satisfaction functions is the Stone space required. The construction is quite straightforward. Los comments that, as the Boolean representation theorem and the theorem that every Boolean algebra has a prime ideal (PI) are equivalent, one could alternatively obtain Henkin's theorem by proving GM implies PI. This is easy, as every Boolean algebra is isomorphic to a quotient algebra 21/3 for suitable Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra 21 (every free Boolean algebra is the Lindenbaum-Tarski algebra of some propositional calculus). The existence of a prime ideal in 21/3 follows from GM, since GM implies the existence of a prime ideal 3 ' => 3 in 21 and 3'/3 is prime in 21/3. In the latter part of his paper Henkin gives a condition under which one can find a Boolean representation of a given Boolean algebra with the cardinality of the unit element of the representation being less than the cardinality of the given Boolean algebra. He gives, in fact, two conditions, one of which requires the axiom of choice in its proof, and asks whether they can be proved equivalent without the axiom of choice. Los shows how they can be proved equivalent with only the use of the axiom of choice for compact topological spaces, a weaker axiom which is equivalent to PI (Los and Ryll-Nardzewski XXXVIII540). ANN S. FEREBEE