Monthly Archives: July 2025

In looking at what seems like an incidental issue, the discussion arrives at a critical point.  The question is:  What decides the issue of style?  Taking a given language as the object of discussion, what factors enter into and determine … Continue reading →

As a result, we can hardly conceive of how many possibilities there are for what we call objective reality.  Our sharp quills of knowledge are so narrow and so concentrated in particular directions that with science there are myriads of … Continue reading →

Derivations An immediate derivation in is an ordered pair of sentential forms in such that the following conditions hold. As noted above, it is usual to express the condition by writing The immediate derivation relation is indicated by saying that … Continue reading →

Characterizations Recall that a formal grammar is defined by a 4‑tuple where is the initial, special, start, or sentence symbol, is a finite set of intermediate symbols, is a finite set of terminal symbols, also known as the alphabet of … Continue reading →