[FOM] Concerning definition of formulas

Alex Blum blumal at mail.biu.ac.il
Sat Oct 6 13:00:50 EDT 2007



B. Sidney Smith wrote:

>None of the responses I've seen on this thread seem to me to do justice to
>the central worry, which is the semantics of predicate logic.  If the
>quantifiers are understood in the usual set-theoretic way, how are we
>justified in formulating set theory in predicate logic?
>  
>
It would be helpful to have a problematic example. After all, the rules 
of English are formulated in  English.
Alex



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