Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Formulation (logic)

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The result was delete. -- Cirt (talk) 12:41, 17 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Formulation (logic)

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No evidence of notability, no sources Paradoctor (talk) 12:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

WP:CREDO yields 80+ uses in relevant reference works, but not a single definition. Paradoctor (talk) 18:00, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

This term has no special meaning in mathematical logic (e.g. in the type of logic covered by the Handbook of mathematical logic). If someone did use the term, I would read it either as "form" or as "formalization", depending on context. I do not know if there is some other context where "formulation" has a technical meaning that this article could discuss. — Carl (CBM · talk) 13:36, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Delete, but without prejudice. Thinking about the history of the article and of semantics, that concept is not used, but there is a related concept in the semantics of a formal language, in which two different well-formed formulas could have identical meanings. The selection of the string associated with the meaning could reasonably be called a "Formulation". But we'd still need a reliable source for the name of the concept. — Arthur Rubin (talk) 15:10, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

- That is what I would call a "formalization". It's relatively common for the same natural-language sentence to have different formalizations, particularly in constructive mathematics where things that are classically equivalent are no longer constructively equivalent. But "formulation" is not a term of art in that setting. — Carl (CBM · talk) 16:33, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Note: This debate has been included in the list of Philosophy-related deletion discussions. —AllyD (talk) 18:16, 10 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]
Delete per Arthur Rubin 65.46.253.42 (talk) 23:53, 16 April 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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