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    • CommentRowNumber1.
    • CommentAuthorzskoda
    • CommentTimeMay 25th 2012
    • (edited May 25th 2012)

    I have expanded theory adding more basics in classical syntactic approach. I added a new subsection

    Set-theoretic models for a first-order theory in syntactic approach

    The basic concept is of a structure for a first-order language LL: a set MM together with an interpretation of LL in MM. A theory is specified by a language and a set of sentences in LL. An LL-structure MM is a model of TT if for every sentence ϕ\phi in TT, its interpretation in MM, ϕ M\phi^M is true (“ϕ\phi holds in MM”). We say that TT is consistent or satisfiable (relative to the universe in which we do model theory) if there exist at least one model for TT (in our universe). Two theories, T 1T_1, T 2T_2 are said to be equivalent if they have the same models.

    Given a class KK of structures for LL, there is a theory Th(K)Th(K) consisting of all sentences in LL which hold in every structure from KK. Two structures MM and NN are elementary equivalent (sometimes written by equality M=NM=N, sometimes said “elementarily equivalent”) if Th(M)=Th(N)Th(M)=Th(N), i.e. if they satisfy the same sentences in LL. Any set of sentences which is equivalent to Th(K)Th(K) is called a set of axioms of KK. A theory is said to be finitely axiomatizable if there exist a finite set of axioms for KK.

    A theory is said to be complete if it is equivalent to Th(M)Th(M) for some structure MM.