Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!clyde.concordia.ca!uunet!snorkelwacker!usc!ucla-cs!math.ucla.edu!sonia!hbe From: hbe@sonia.math.ucla.edu (H. Enderton) Newsgroups: comp.theory Subject: Re: Math Logic Keywords: proof model Message-ID: <213@kaos.MATH.UCLA.EDU> Date: 6 Aug 90 23:06:11 GMT References: <1990Aug3.162306.29574@wiis.wang.com> Sender: news@MATH.UCLA.EDU Reply-To: hbe@math.ucla.edu (H. Enderton) Distribution: sci.logic Organization: UCLA Mathematics Department Lines: 12 In article <1990Aug3.162306.29574@wiis.wang.com> bnh@wiis.wang.com (Bill Halchin) asks about the connection between provability (with axioms and rules of inference) and logical consequence (defined semantically). The remarkable connection between provability and logical consequence (for first-order logic) is given by the Godel completeness theorem. (Not to be confused with the Godel incompleteness theorem.) Since you have Kleene's book, see section 72. The completeness theorem must be in Boolos & Jeffrey also (which is probably a better place to start). --hbe