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 structure M follows from its truth in M, the formula is downward absolute.

  • if the truth of a formula in a structure N implies its truth in each structure M extending N, the formula is upward absolute.

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