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Re: [ontolog-forum] First-Order Semantics

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From: Christopher Menzel <cmenzel@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 22:22:40 -0500
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On Jun 15, 2007, at 8:02 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote:
> On Jun 15, 2007, at 6:39 PM, Waclaw Kusnierczyk wrote:
>> Christopher Menzel wrote:
>>>>> There are (as of course John and Pat know) 2^card(D) relations  
>>>>> over
>>>>> any set (taking relations here to be sets of n-tuples).
>>>> Only if n=1.
>>>
>>> Only if D is finite.
>>
>> My point was that a relation over a single set is a set of 1-tuples;
>
> I am not following you.  In standard, classical logic and set theory,
> an n-place relation over a set...    (01)

a set S    (02)

> ...is a set of n-tuples of members of S.    (03)

-chris    (04)



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