Gentzenization

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noun

Conversion of a logic into a Gentzenian form.

Scrabble 33

Meanings

nounGentzenization (countable and uncountable, plural Gentzenizations)

plural Gentzenizations

  1. countableuncountableConversion of a logic into a Gentzenian form.

    Proof Theory (theory of axiomatizability, Gentzenization)

    1968, Nicholas Rescher, Topics in Philosophical Logic
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    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 198

    When 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

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