Absoluteness
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In mathematical logic, a formula is said to be absolute if it has the same truth value in each class of structures/models.
Theorems about absoluteness typically establish relationships between the absoluteness of formulas and their syntactic form.
There are two weaker forms of partial absoluteness:
if the truth of a formula in each substructure
N
of a structureM
follows from its truth inM
, the formula is downward absolute.if the truth of a formula in a structure
N
implies its truth in each structureM
extendingN
, the formula is upward absolute.
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