Inmathematical logic,Lindström's theorem (named after Swedish logicianPer Lindström, who published it in 1969) states thatfirst-order logic is thestrongest logic[1] (satisfying certain conditions, e.g.closure underclassical negation) having both the(countable) compactness property and the(downward) Löwenheim–Skolem property.[2]
Lindström's theorem is perhaps the best known result of what later became known asabstract model theory,[3] the basic notion of which is anabstract logic;[4] the more general notion of aninstitution was later introduced, which advances from aset-theoretical notion of model to acategory-theoretical one.[5] Lindström had previously obtained a similar result in studying first-order logics extended withLindström quantifiers.[6]
Lindström's theorem has been extended to various other systems of logic, in particularmodal logics byJohan van Benthem and Sebastian Enqvist.
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