The Difference That Makes A Difference That Peirce Makes • 18

Re: Peter SmithWhich Is The Quantifier?

From a functional logic point of view logicians slipped a step backward when they passed from Peirce’s \sum and \prod to the current convention of using \exists and \forall for logical quantifiers.  There’s a rough indication of what I mean at the following location.

Functional Logic • Higher Order Propositions

Just a reminder to get back to this later …

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