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by codeflo
984 days ago
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Yeah, listing {AND, NOT} was a mistake — you’re right, you do need a constant. My problem with p 🡑 ¬p ≡ 1 is simply that you need some (arbitrary) value p from somewhere. It’s not 1, it’s a unary function that returns 1. That just bothers me. |
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How do you know it's a unary function? For all you know, the function in question is f(p,q,r,s,t) = p 🡑 ¬p.
In fact it's a nullary function, because you don't need any input. There is no difference between the functions f(p,q,r,s,t) = p 🡑 ¬p and f(p,q,r,s,t) = r 🡑 ¬r. They have exactly the same behavior in every respect. And for the same reason, there is also no difference between those functions and the functions f(p) = p 🡑 ¬p, f(q) = p 🡑 ¬p [sic], and f() = p 🡑 ¬p.