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Some Undecidable Theories

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Mathematical Logic

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Corresponding to our list in Chapter 13 of decidable theories we begin this section with a list of undecidable theories. As we have previously indicated, most undecidable theories satisfy one of the two stronger properties of inseparability or finite inseparability, and we shall indicate these properties in the table below.

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Monk, J.D. (1976). Some Undecidable Theories. In: Mathematical Logic. Graduate Texts in Mathematics, vol 37. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-9452-5_17

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