This is simply to show where in Douglas Hoftstadter's Gödel, Escher, Bach to find topics covered in Geoffrey Hunter's Metalogic, and vice versa.
Hunter | Hofstadter | |
Elements of a formal system | 4-5, 7-8 | 33-36, 559 |
Theory / metatheory | 3, 10 | 23.5, 26-27, 36-37, 271.1, 449-50, 656-57 |
Effective method, decision procedure | 13-15 | 40-41 |
Proof that the reals are uncountable | 31-32 | 421-22 |
TFPL, the formal language | 54-55 | 181-82 |
TFPL, the deductive apparatus | 72-73 | 181.7, 183.3, 185.2, 186.1, 187-88 |
Proof / derivation | 74-75 | 195 |
Semantic motivation of consistency | 78 | 87-88, 94f, 453.3f |
Proof of consistency of TFPL | 79, 81 | none but see 191-92 |
Deduction Theorem, or Fantasy Rule | 84-88 | 183-85 |
Mathematical induction | 85, 88-89 | 223-25 |
Semantic motivation of completeness | 92-94 | 102.1 |
PL, the formal language | 137-41 | 206-09, 213-15 |
PL, the deductive apparatus | 167-68 | 215-20, 223-25 |
Gödel-numbering | 225-27 | 261-62, 267-69, 502.1 |
Representing sets and functions | 224, 234-35 | 407.4, 416-17, 430.3 |
Uncomputable functions | 222-23 | 418-19 |
Gödel's first incompleteness theorem | 228-29 | 17-18, 101, 265-72, 438-39 |
Recursive function theory | 230-34 | 136-40, 152 |
Church's Thesis | 230-32 | 428-29, 559-79 |
General / partial recursive functions | 230-33 | 429.7 |
Church's Theorem | 230-32, 239-50 | 560.9, 579-80 |
Non-standard arithmetic | 203-205, 230-238 | 223.4, 452-59 |
Gödel's second incompleteness theorem | 238, 257 | 230, 449-50, 696 |
omega-incompleteness | 256 | 221-22, 450-51 |
omega-inconsistency | 256 | 223, 453 |
This file is an electronic hand-out for the course, Logical Systems.
Peter Suber,
Department of Philosophy,
Earlham College, Richmond, Indiana, 47374, U.S.A.
peters@earlham.edu. Copyright © 1999, Peter Suber.