Complacence vs Completeness - What's the difference?
complacence | completeness |
(archaic) Being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency.
* Atterbury
(obsolete) Pleasure, delight.
* Milton
(obsolete) Complaisance; a willingness to comply with others' wishes.
* 1749 , Henry Fielding, Tom Jones , Folio Society 1973, pp. 33-4:
the state or condition of being complete
(logic) The property of a logical theory that whenever a wff is valid then it must also be a theorem. Symbolically, letting T'' represent a theory within logic ''L'', this can be represented as the property that whenever is true, then must also be true, for any wff ''φ'' of logic ''L .
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As nouns the difference between complacence and completeness
is that complacence is (archaic) being complacent; a feeling of contentment or satisfaction; complacency while completeness is the state or condition of being complete.complacence
English
Noun
(-)- The inward complacence we find in acting reasonably and virtuously.
- O thou, my sole complacence .
- He told his sister, if she pleased, the new-born infant should be bred up together with little Tommy; to which she consented, though with some little reluctance: for she had truly a great complacence for her brother [...].
Synonyms
* self-complacency * self-satisfactioncompleteness
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(wikipedia completeness)Noun
(-)- THEOREM 37°. (Gödel's completeness theorem 1930.) In the predicate calculus H'':
(a) ''If'' [''or even if'' -], ''then'' . ''If'' [''or even if'' -], ''then .
(b) [...]