Infinitary Logic - Complete Infinitary Logics

Complete Infinitary Logics

Two infinitary logics stand out in their completeness. These are and . The former is standard finitary first-order logic and the latter is an infinitary logic that only allows statements of countable size.

is also strongly complete, compact and strongly compact.

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