logic connective
81Functional predicate — In formal logic and related branches of mathematics, a functional predicate, or function symbol, is a logical symbol that may be applied to an object term to produce another object term.Functional predicates are also sometimes called mappings ,… …
82Donald Davidson (philosopher) — Donald Herbert Davidson Portrait of Donald Davidson by the photographer Steve Pyke in 1990. Full name Donald Herbert Davidson Born 6 March 1917(1917 03 06) Springfield, Massachusetts …
83Two Dogmas of Empiricism — W. V. O. Quine s paper Two Dogmas of Empiricism , published in 1951, is one of the most celebrated papers of twentieth century philosophy in the analytic tradition. The paper is an attack on two central parts of the logical positivists philosophy …
84Relation algebra — is different from relational algebra, a framework developed by Edgar Codd in 1970 for relational databases. In mathematics, a relation algebra is a residuated Boolean algebra supporting an involutary unary operation called converse. The… …
85Universal quantification — In predicate logic, universal quantification is an attempt to formalize the notion that something (a logical predicate) is true for everything , or every relevant thing.The resulting statement is a universally quantified statement, and we have… …
86Formal interpretation — A formal interpretation [http://books.google.com/books?id=weKqT3ka5g0C pg=PA74 lpg=PA74 dq=%22Formal+interpretation%22+%22formal+language%22 source=web ots=pLN ms7Wi2 sig=P JqwdzOqLcX4nMpP64qmacnkDU hl=en#PPA74,M1 Cann Ronnie, Formal Semantics:… …
87Ludics — In proof theory, ludics is an analysis of the principles governing inference rules of mathematical logic. Key features of ludics are its notion of compound connectives using a technique known as focusing or focalisation (invented by the computer… …
88Logical harmony — Logical harmony, a name coined by Sir Michael Dummett, is a supposed constraint on the rules of inference that can be used in a given logical system.The logician Gerhard Gentzen proposed that the meanings of logical connectives could be given by… …
89ERROL — (an acronym for Entity Relationship Role Oriented Language) is a declarative database query and manipulation language for the Entity relationship model (ERM). It is applicable to any data model on which ERM can be mapped, virtually any general… …
90conjunction — conjunctional, adj. conjunctionally, adv. /keuhn jungk sheuhn/, n. 1. Gram. a. any member of a small class of words distinguished in many languages by their function as connectors between words, phrases, clauses, or sentences, as and, because,… …
