Section 3.3: Problem 3 Solution
Working problems is a crucial part of learning mathematics. No one can learn... merely by poring over the definitions, theorems, and examples that are worked out in the text. One must work part of it out for oneself. To provide that opportunity is the purpose of the exercises.
James R. Munkres
A theory 
 (in a language with 
 and 
) is called 
-complete iff for any formula 
 and variable 
, if 
 belongs to 
 for every natural number 
, then 
 belongs to 
. Show that if 
 is a consistent 
-complete theory in the language of 
 and if 
, then 
.
Let 
 be a sentence (in the language of 
) in the prenex normal form (Section 2.6). We use induction on the number of quantifiers in 
 to show that 
 iff 
 is true in 
. We already know by the preceding exercise that for every quantifier-free sentence 
, if 
 is true in 
, then 
, hence, 
, and if 
 is false in 
, then 
, hence, 
. If 
 is true in 
, where 
 is the only free variable in 
, then for all 
, 
, and, by hypothesis, 
, but then, since 
 is 
-complete, 
. If 
 is true in 
, then for some 
, 
, and, by hypothesis, 
, but then 
. Now, if 
 or 
 is false in 
, then 
 (which is logically equivalent to 
 or 
, respectively) is true in 
, and, hence, 
. Therefore, by induction, we conclude that 
 (
) iff 
 is true in 
 (
) (here, we use the fact the 
 is consistent).
Note. 
 is not 
-complete. For example, if 
, then 
 for every 
, however, 
, which is axiom S3 of 
.
