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Past exam of the mathematics course of the University of Cambridge 2020 ii Paper 2 16H b i Solution by
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The Godel completeness theorem says that for every first-order theory and sentence ,Together with soundness, this is equivalence; it is also equivalent to saying that every syntactically consistent first-order theory has a model.
The compactness theorem states that a set of first-order sentences has a model if and only if every finite subset has a model. To deduce it, suppose every finite subset is satisfiable but is not. Then , so completeness gives a formal proof . A proof uses only finitely many assumptions, yielding some finite , contrary to that subset's satisfiability.
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