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On Meyer and Lambert's quantificational calculus FQ

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Hugues Leblanc*
Affiliation:
Temple University

Extract

The semantical account that Meyer and Lambert give in [7] of their quantificational calculus FQ can be considerably simplified, and—supposing as the authors do at the close of their paper that ‘ = ’ counts as a primitive sign—so can their axiom system for FQ.

(1) As the authors remark, axiom schema 102 can be simplified to read : A ⊃ (∀Χ)A, where Χ does not occur free in A. Following Tarski's [9], it can be further simplified: A ⊃ (∀Χ)A, where Χ does not occur in A.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1968

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