Finite Model Theory(2nd Edition)

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Heinz Dieter Ebbinghaus ,Jorg Flum

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ISBN: B001IU2OPK, 978-3540287889

Book publisher: Springer

Book Price $56.81 : Finite Model Theory, The Model Theory Of Finite Structures, Has Roots In Clas­ Sical Model Theory; However, Its Systematic Development Was Strongly Influ­ Enced By Research And Questions Of Complexity Theory And Of Database Theory. Model Theory Or The Theory Of Models, As It Was First Named By Tarski In 1954, May Be Considered As The Part Of The Semantics Of Formalized Languages That Is Concerned With The Interplay Between The Syntactic Structure Of An Axiom System On The One Hand And (algebraic, Settheoretic, . . . ) Properties Of Its Models On The Other Hand. As It Turned Out, First-order Language (we Mostly Speak Of First-order Logic) Became The Most Prominent Language In This Respect, The Reason Being That It Obeys Some Fundamental Principles Such As The Compactness Theorem And The Completeness Theorem. These Principles Are Valuable Modeltheoretic Tools And, At The Same Time, Reflect The Expressive Weakness Of First-order Logic. This Weakness Is The Breeding Ground For The Freedomwhich Modeltheoretic Methods Rest Upon. By Compactness, Any First-order Axiom System Either Has Only Finite Models Of Limited Cardinality Or Has Infinite Models. The First Case Is Trivial Because Finitely Many Finite Structures Can Explicitly Be Described By A First-order Sentence. As Model Theory Usually Considers All Models Of An Axiom System, Modeltheorists Were Thus Led To The Second Case, That Is, To Infinite Structures. In Fact, Classical Model Theory Of First-order Logic And Its Generalizations To Stronger Languages Live In The Realm Of The Infinite.