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A geometric proof of the completeness of the Łukasiewicz calculus

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Giovanni Panti*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics, University of Siena, Via Del Capitano 15, 53100 Siena, Italy, E-mail: panti@sivax.unisi.it

Abstract

We give a self-contained geometric proof of the completeness theorem for the infinite-valued sentential calculus of Łukasiewicz.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1995

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