Meanings
plural Gentzenizations
- countableuncountableConversion of a logic into a Gentzenian form.
Proof Theory (theory of axiomatizability, Gentzenization)
1968, Nicholas Rescher, Topics in Philosophical Logic2 more examples
We shall recall that at the heart of the Gentzenization of the absolutely strict systems was the rule → L […]
1973, J. Jay Zeman, Modal Logic: The Lewis Modal Systems, Clarendon Press, page 198When I first arrived in 1963, the hunt was on to find a Gentzenization of relevance logic, and not only his graduate seminars but mine too got caught up in the search.
2012, M. Dunn, Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap, page 231
Origin
From German Gentzen + -ization.
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