Skolemization (English, noun)
expansion: Skolemization (uncountable)
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topics: human-sciences
logic
mathematics
philosophy
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glosses: The conversion of a formula of first-order logic which involves the following steps: (1) replace free variables with constants, (2) replace any variable bound by an existential quantifier which lies in the scope of an even number of logical negations with a Skolem function, and (3) replace any variable bound by a universal quantifier which lies in the scope of an odd number of negations with a Skolem function.
tags: uncountable
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