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The semisubstitutivity of strict implication

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

J. Jay Zeman*
Affiliation:
University of Florida

Extract

In [1], the principle of semisubstitutivity of implication (SSI) was introduced for ordinary PC and quantification theory. This metatheorem generalizes the notions of “antecedent” and “consequent” to cover all wf subformulas of a given formula; each such subformula will be classified as being either in “antecedental position” (A-pos) or “consequential position” (C-pos). It is simplest to check these positions in a conjunction-negation primitive system: reduce a formula φ to primitive notation (K—N) ; choose a subformula ψ of φ; count the negation signs in φ within whose scope ψ falls.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1968

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References

[1]Jay Zeman, J., A system of implicit quantification, this Journal, vol. 32 (1967), pp. 480504.Google Scholar
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