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Re: Must higher-order logic be typed?

Subject: Re: Must higher-order logic be typed?
From: "Newberry"
Date: 27 Aug 2006 08:40:46 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
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> However, if you ask "what is a higher order logic?" then one reasonable
> answer to that might be "a logic in which it is possible to quantify
> over sets or functions or predicates (not just over individuals)" and
> there are many logical systems in which this can be done but which are
> not typed (though they are not normally called higher order logics).
> The best known is set theory

This is what confuses me. Is set theory a multi-order logic done in a
first order logic?


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