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Also known as sound, logically sound, logical soundness

In logic, soundness can refer to either a property of arguments or a property of formal deductive systems.

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Encyclopedic overview

10 sections
Contents
  • Definition for arguments
  • Definition for formal systems
  • Weak soundness
  • Strong soundness
  • Arithmetic soundness
  • Relation to completeness
  • See also
  • References
  • Bibliography
  • External links

In logic, soundness can refer to either a property of arguments or a property of formal deductive systems.

An argument is sound if (and only if) it is both valid in form and has no false premises.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “soundness” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.