| Subject: | Re: Must higher-order logic be typed? |
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| From: | "Newberry" |
| Date: | 27 Aug 2006 08:40:46 -0700 |
| Newsgroups: | sci.logic |
> > 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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