Meanings
- uncountablehuman sciencesThe logic of sentences involving quantifiers, predicates, and names; the branch of logic that investigates the properties that arguments, sentences, and sets of sentences have in virtue of their quantificational structure.
Classical quantificational logic is the logic of quantifiers 'all' and 'some' in combination with truth functions.
1990, Willard Van Orman Quine, Philosophy of Logic, 2nd edition, Harvard University Press, page 35Synonyms: first-order logic, predicate logic, elementary logic, quantification theory
Synonyms & antonyms
nounThe logic of sentences involving quantifiers, predicates, and names; the branch of logic that investigates the properties that arguments, sentences, and sets of sentences have in virtue of their quantificational structure.
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