Loosely guarded fragment of first-order logic has the finite model property

Studia Logica 70 (2):205 - 240 (2002)
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Abstract

We show that the loosely guarded and packed fragments of first-order logic have the finite model property. We use a construction of Herwig and Hrushovski. We point out some consequences in temporal predicate logic and algebraic logic.

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