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Completeness problems in verification of programs and program schemes

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Thm 1 states a negative result about the classical semantics

of program schemes. Thm 2 investigates the reason for this. We conclude that Thm 2 justifies the Henkin-type semantics ⊨ for which the opposite of the present Thm 1 was proved in Andréka-Németi[1],

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Andréka, H., Németi, I., Sain, I. (1979). Completeness problems in verification of programs and program schemes. In: Bečvář, J. (eds) Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science 1979. MFCS 1979. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 74. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-09526-8_17

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