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| Note that we have defined negation, conjunction, and universal quantification, so all propositional operations and existential quantification are expressible. | Note that we have defined negation, conjunction, and universal quantification, so all propositional operations and existential quantification are expressible. | ||
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| + | Note also that we can express | ||
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| + | \mbox{ let } x = E \mbox{ in } F | ||
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| + | by $(\lambda x.F)E$. | ||
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| + | The selection operator $\iota$ is not essential, but is a useful notation. By writing | ||
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| + | \mbox{ let } y = \iota(\lambda x. P(x)) \mbox{ in } F | ||
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| + | we can express the phrase "let y in F denote the unique x such that P(x) holds". | ||