[Spam] [SCL] question about composite terms in relation/function position

Robert E. Kent rekent at ontologos.org
Thu Mar 18 17:12:07 CST 2004


This expression with universal quantifiers is nonsense. What I should have
used was a lambda operator for binding the arguments of relations.  For example,

((lambda (x y) (less-than (square-root x) (times x y))) 4 1)

But such would not conform to SCL.

> was not successful because it contains free variables and it is unclear
how to bind the arguments in the proper order. This can be done with
equations

> (forall (x y) (and (less-than (square-root x) (times x y)) (= x 4) (= y 1)))

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