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completeness

noun

Meaning

  • 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 \vDash \phi is true, then T \vdash \phi must also be true, for any wff φ of logic L.

Synonyms

completion,
fulfillment