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A completeness theorem in modal logic1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Saul A. Kripke
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The present paper attempts to state and prove a completeness theorem for the system S5 of [1], supplemented by first-order quantifiers and the sign of equality. We assume that we possess a denumerably infinite list of individual variables a, b, c, …, x, y, z, …, xm, ym, zm, … as well as a denumerably infinite list of n-adic predicate variables Pn, Qn, Rn, …, Pmn, Qmn, Rmn,…; if n=0, an n-adic predicate variable is often called a “propositional variable.” A formula Pn(x1, …,xn) is an n-adic prime formula; often the superscript will be omitted if such an omission does not sacrifice clarity.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , March 1959 , pp. 1 - 14
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1959

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Footnotes

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My thanks to the referee and to Professor H. B. Curry for their helpful comments on this paper and their careful reading of it. I must express an added debt of gratitude to Curry; without his constant encouragement of my research, publication of these results might have been delayed for years.

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