Paper 1, Section II, H

Logic and Set Theory
Part II, 2017

State the Completeness Theorem for Propositional Logic.

[You do not need to give definitions of the various terms involved.]

State the Compactness Theorem and the Decidability Theorem, and deduce them from the Completeness Theorem.

A set SS of propositions is called finitary if there exists a finite set TT of propositions such that {t:St}={t:Tt}\{t: S \vdash t\}=\{t: T \vdash t\}. Give examples to show that an infinite set of propositions may or may not be finitary.

Now let AA and BB be sets of propositions such that every valuation is a model of exactly one of AA and BB. Show that there exist finite subsets AA^{\prime} of AA and BB^{\prime} of BB with ABA^{\prime} \cup B^{\prime} \models \perp, and deduce that AA and BB are finitary.