Circularity in soundness and completeness

Bulletin of Symbolic Logic 20 (1):24-38 (2014)
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We raise an issue of circularity in the argument for the completeness of first-order logic. An analysis of the problem sheds light on the development of mathematics, and suggests other possible directions for foundational research.

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10.1017/bsl.2013.4

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