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Re: Must higher-order logic be typed?

Subject: Re: Must higher-order logic be typed?
From: "Owen"
Date: 28 Aug 2006 12:47:37 -0700
Newsgroups: sci.logic
Newberry wrote:
> >
> > 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?

Often that is the case. See: Quine.


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