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Cactus Language • Preliminaries 4
The informal mechanisms illustrated in the preceding discussion equip us with a description of cactus language adequate to providing conceptual and computational representations for the minimal formal logical system variously known as propositional logic or sentential calculus. The painted cactus … Continue reading
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