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  • Alfred North Whitehead
    formal logic
    / Special systems of LPC

    …of n arguments (or, of degree n) when there is a rule that specifies a unique object (called the value of the function) whenever all the arguments are specified. In the domain of human beings, for example, “the mother of —” is a monadic function (a function of one argument),…

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    …of n arguments (or, of degree n) when there is a rule that specifies a unique object (called the value of the function) whenever all the arguments are specified. In the domain of human beings, for example, “the mother of —” is a monadic function (a function of one argument),…

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