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Thursday, July 8, 2010

Seven categories of symbols for Grice's natural deduction system

These are

CATEGORY 1:

predicate-constants.

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CATEGORY 2:

constants of individuals.

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category 3:

variables of individual

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category 4:

LOGICAL constants -- by which he means truth-functors:

monadic: ~

dyadic: /\, \/, and ) (he later will play with )()

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Category 5:

quantification-symbols: A and E. A quantifier is a complex of a quantification symbol followed by a subscripted variable -- rendering Axn, and Exn

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Category 6:

numerical subscripts proper -- which denote natural numbers

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Category 7:

propositional letters (just in case).

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