completeness
IPA: kʌmpɫˈitnʌs
noun
- The state or condition of being complete.
- (logic) 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.
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Examples of "completeness" in Sentences
- Then we establish a converse, called completeness, that an argument is valid only if it is derivable.
- The instinct for completeness, which is one of the dominating characteristics of his mind, compelled him to consent.
- So, dying isn’t bad, for the person who dies, they are truely going home to be whole and loved in completeness again.
- But this higher completeness, which is beauty, whether it happen to exist or not, is never the immediate aim of Nature.
- Secondly, the other direction, that is, the completeness part, is proved by what is really known as the Lindenbaum-Tarski method.
- In most applications of preference logic, it is taken for granted that the following property, called completeness or connectedness, should be satisfied:
- This kind of completeness is rare in parasitic twins, especially among fetus in fetu, which tend not to be "alive" in the sense we think of, but rather a sort of growth in human form.
- For us moderns that which most profoundly marks a narrative poem as an epic, is a certain completeness and harmony, a general impression of rest, however the various episodes may be charged with suffering and struggle.
- The Llangollen couple were famous for their gardens, and Dorothy creates here likewise a "garden stored with fruits and flowers/And sunny seats and shady bowers," supporting a life whose completeness is emphasized through the repetition of
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