completeness
The English word “completeness” has 2 meanings listed here.
noun
- The state or condition of being complete.
- The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T represent a theory within logic L, this can be represented as the property that whenever T⊨ϕ is true, then T⊢ϕ must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.
Etymology
From complete + -ness.
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