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Lindström's Theorem

Why no logic stronger than first-order logic keeps both compactness and Löwenheim-Skolem, and what that is supposed to prove

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Will defineabstract logicLindström's theorem
Assumescompactness theoremLöwenheim-Skolem theoremsecond-order logicexpressive power

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