Differential Propositional Calculus • 8

Formal Development (cont.)

Before moving on, let’s unpack some of the assumptions, conventions, and implications involved in the array of concepts and notations introduced above.

A universe of discourse A^\bullet = [a_1, \ldots, a_n] qualified by the logical features a_1, \ldots, a_n is a set A plus the set of all functions from the space A to the boolean domain \mathbb{B} = \{ 0, 1 \}.  There are 2^n elements in A, often pictured as the cells of a venn diagram or the nodes of a hypercube.  There are 2^{2^n} possible functions from A to \mathbb{B}, accordingly pictured as all the ways of painting the cells of a venn diagram or the nodes of a hypercube with a palette of two colors.

A logical proposition about the elements of A is either true or false of each element in A, while a function f : A \to \mathbb{B} evaluates to 1 or 0 on each element of A.  The analogy between logical propositions and boolean-valued functions is close enough to adopt the latter as models of the former and simply refer to the functions f : A \to \mathbb{B} as propositions about the elements of A.

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