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Single Idea 10780

[filed under theme 5. Theory of Logic / A. Overview of Logic / 7. Second-Order Logic ]

Full Idea

Boolos discovered that any sentence of monadic second-order logic can be translated into plural first-order logic.

Gist of Idea

Any sentence of monadic second-order logic can be translated into plural first-order logic

Source

report of George Boolos (To be is to be the value of a variable.. [1984], §1) by Øystein Linnebo - Plural Quantification Exposed p.74

Book Ref

-: 'Nous' [-], p.74