This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper studies the expressive power that an extra first order quantifier adds to a fragment of monadic second order logic, extending the ...

Studia Logica: An International Journal for Symbolic Logic, Vol. 61, No. 1, Many-Valued Logics (Jul., 1998), pp. 101-121 (21 pages) We provide tools for a concise axiomatization of a broad class of ...

Logic and geometric representations constitute an interdisciplinary framework that merges formal logical systems with spatial and diagrammatic structures. This field encompasses the study of classical ...

Cylindrical Algebraic Decomposition (CAD) is a pivotal algorithmic technique in real algebraic geometry, instrumental in resolving problems expressed in a first‐order language over the reals. By ...

Definiteness is an operator that referring to discourse and pragmatic situations. In a nutshell definiteness is a referent whose existence is commonly understood to both the speaker and the addressee.

First note that the quantifier c-commands BOOK. Short C-command of this sort is called government. Government differs from c-command in that a node can be governed by only one governor, where as a ...