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Special systems of LPC
One or more individual constants (say, a, b, …): these constants are interpreted as names of specific individuals; formally they are distinguished from individual variables by the fact that they cannot occur within quantifiers; e.g., (∀x) is a quantifier but (∀a) is not. b.One or more predicate constants…
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One or more individual constants (say, a, b, …): these constants are interpreted as names of specific individuals; formally they are distinguished from individual variables by the fact that they cannot occur within quantifiers; e.g., (∀x) is a quantifier but (∀a) is not. b.One or more predicate constants…
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