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Re: Why so many overlapping terminologies

Subject: Re: Why so many overlapping terminologies
From: William Elliot
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 21:55:24 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
On Sat, 26 Aug 2006, Terry Padden wrote:
> "William Elliot" <marsh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Terry Padden wrote:
> >
> >> Superficially it seems that we have at least 5 distinct terminologies
> >> covering the same fundamental concepts. They are (I think, but I may have
> >> them mixed up)
> >>
> >> In Logic                                Conjunction   &  Disjunction
> >
> > Also universal quantifier and existential quantifier.
> >
> >> In Set Theory                        Intersection   &   Union
> >
> > Also great intersection, great union.
> >
> >> In Boolean Algebra                  AND   &   OR
> >
> > also inf, sup
> >
> >> In Lattice Theory                     Meet   &   Join
> >
> > also inf, sup and glb, lub
> >
> >> In Arithmetic                          HCF   &   LCM
> >>
> > Likely HCF is typo for gcf which also known as gcd.
> >
> > In analysis:  inf, sup and glb, lub
>
> I see.  You are one of those who think the way to solve problems is to make
> them bigger and more complicated = worse.

No, I wanted to assure you had all the needed facts to work with.

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