universal quantification
1Universal 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… …
2Quantification — has two distinct meanings.In mathematics and empirical science, it refers to human acts, known as counting and measuring that map human sense observations and experiences into members of some set of numbers. Quantification in this sense is… …
3Universal algebra — (sometimes called general algebra) is the field of mathematics that studies algebraic structures themselves, not examples ( models ) of algebraic structures.For instance, rather than take particular groups as the object of study, in universal… …
4Universal instantiation — In logic universal instantiation (UI, sometimes confused with Dictum de omni) is an inference from a truth about each member of a class of individuals to the truth about a particular individual of that class. It is generally given as a… …
5quantification — See quantifiable. * * * ▪ logic in logic, the attachment of signs of quantity to the predicate or subject of a proposition. The universal quantifier, symbolized by (∀ ) or ( ), where the blank is filled by a variable, is used to express… …
6Existential quantification — In predicate logic, an existential quantification is the predication [The term predication in grammar means the predicate of a sentence which refers to subject and is an adverb or adjective, or equivalent, that describes an attribute of the… …
7Uniqueness quantification — This article is about mathematics. For the electronic group, see Unique (band). In mathematics and logic, the phrase there is one and only one is used to indicate that exactly one object with a certain property exists. In mathematical logic, this …
8Singular they — is a popular, non technical expression for uses of the pronoun they (and its inflected forms) when plurality is not required by the context. The Chicago Manual of Style notes: On the one hand, it is unacceptable to a great many reasonable readers …
9Dependence logic — is a logical formalism, created by Jouko Väänänen[1], which adds dependence atoms to the language of first order logic. A dependence atom is an expression of the form , where are terms, and corresponds to the statement that the value of is… …
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