functional calculus

noun

the branch of symbolic logic that includes the sentential calculus and that deals with sentential functions and quantifiers and with logical relations between sentences containing quantifiers.

Also called predicate calculus, predicate logic.

Origin:
1930–35

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functional calculus

—n
	another name for predicate calculus

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