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| I am going to revert to my customarily sloppy workshop manners and refer to propositions and proposition expressions on rough analogy with functions and function expressions, which implies that a proposition will be regarded as the chief formal object of discussion, enjoying many proposition expressions, formulas, or sentences that express it, but worst of all I will probably just go ahead and use any and all of these terms as loosely as I see fit, taking a bit of extra care only when I see the need. | | I am going to revert to my customarily sloppy workshop manners and refer to propositions and proposition expressions on rough analogy with functions and function expressions, which implies that a proposition will be regarded as the chief formal object of discussion, enjoying many proposition expressions, formulas, or sentences that express it, but worst of all I will probably just go ahead and use any and all of these terms as loosely as I see fit, taking a bit of extra care only when I see the need. |
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− | Let ''Q'' be a proposition with an unspecified, but context-appropriate number of variables, say, none, or ''x'', or ''x''<sub>1</sub>, … ''x''<sub>''k''</sub>, as the case may be. (To be more precise, I should have said "sentence ''Q''".) | + | Let <math>Q\!</math> be a proposition with an unspecified, but context-appropriate number of variables, say, none, or <math>x,\!</math> or <math>x_1, \ldots, x_k,\!</math> as the case may be. (To be more precise, I should have said "sentence <math>Q\;\!</math>".) |
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| :* Strings and graphs sans labels are called ''bare''. | | :* Strings and graphs sans labels are called ''bare''. |