Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic

Metalogic: An Introduction to the Metatheory of Standard First Order Logic

1973 | 302 | ISBN: 0520023560 | DJVU | 6 Mb

0520018222This work makes available to readers without specialized training in mathematics complete proofs of the fundamental metatheorems of standard (i.e., basically truth-functional) first order logic. Included is a complete proof, accessible to non-mathematicians, of the undecidability of first order logic, the most important fact about logic to emerge from the work of the last half-century....