A note on the first-order logic of complete BL-chains

In [10] it is claimed that the set of predicate tautologies of all complete BL-chains and the set of all standard tautologies (i. e., the set of predicate formulas valid in all standard BL-algebras) coincide. As noticed in [11], this claim is wrong. In this paper we show that a complete BL-chain B satisfies all standard BL-tautologies iff for any transfinite sequence (ai: i ∈ I) of elements of B, the condition ∧i ∈ I (a2i) = (∧i ∈ Iai)2 holds in B. (© 2008 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)