Predicate Calculus Definition

noun
The branch of symbolic logic that deals with relations between propositions and with their internal structure, especially the relation between subject and predicate.
American Heritage

(logic) The branch of logic that deals with quantified statements such as "there exists an x such that..." or "for any x, it is the case that...", where x is a member of the domain of discourse.

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Synonyms:
  • functional calculus

Predicate Calculus Sentence Examples

  • Combinatorics was introduced by Ramsey to solve a special case of the decision problem for the first-order predicate calculus.

  • Such a question is irrelevant at the level of predicate calculus.

  • We extend their result to more general structures of first order predicate calculus.

  • The combinatorics was introduced by Ramsey to solve a special case of the decision problem for the first-order predicate calculus.

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