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Although fundamental to logic, truth-functional connectives have very limited expressive power. In this chapter we go further, explaining the basic ideas of quantificational logic (also known as first-order or predicate logic), which is sufficiently expressive to cover most of the deductive reasoning that is carried out in standard mathematics and computer science.
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Makinson, D. (2020). Something About Everything: Quantificational Logic. In: Sets, Logic and Maths for Computing. Undergraduate Topics in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42218-9_9
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