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- From: columbus@strident.think.com (Michael Weiss)
- Newsgroups: sci.physics
- Subject: Re: Lowenheim-Skolem theorem (was: Continuos vs. discrete models)
- Date: 19 Nov 92 15:14:02
- Organization: Thinking Machines Corporation, Cambridge MA, USA
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- In-reply-to: rivero's message of Thu, 19 Nov 1992 17:28:44 GMT
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- In article <1992Nov19.172844.17787@ulrik.uio.no> rivero
- <rivero@cc.unizar.es> writes:
-
- Wasnt L-H theorem the kind of things that let you go in both directions?
- This is, given a model, you can get ones with lower cardinality, and
- others with higher.
- I think to remember that you can always go higher by using
- Los theorem, ultraproducts, or something so?. This was the thing
- Robinson did to go over no-standard (*), is this?
-
- Quite true: the simplest "upward" L-S theorem asserts that if a theory with
- a countable language has an infinite model, then it has models of arbitrary
- cardinality kappa. This is easy to see from the completeness theorem: just
- add kappa constants to the language, and axioms stating that they are all
- distinct; you can easily show from the hypothesis that this extended theory
- is consistent, so it has a model.
-