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2.3.1 Quantifications

  QUANTIFICATION   ::= quantification QUANTIFIER VAR-DECL+ FORMULA
  QUANTIFIER       ::= forall | exists | exists-uniquely

A quantification with the forall quantifier is written:

forall  VD1; ...; VDn  ·  F
The sign displayed as the `for all' symbol in LaTeX is input as `forall'. The sign displayed as `  ·  ' may be input as `·' in ISO Latin-1, or as `.' in ASCII.

A quantification with the exists quantifier is written:

exists  VD1; ...;VDn  ·  F

A quantification with the exists-uniquely quantifier is written:

exists ! VD1; ...;VDn  ·  F
The sign displayed as the `exists' symbol in LaTeX is input as `exists'.

The first case is universal quantification, holding when the body F holds for all values of the quantified variables; the second case is existential quantification, holding when the body F holds for any values of the quantified variables; and the last case is unique existential quantification, abbreviating a formula that holds when the body F holds for unique values of the quantified variables.

The formula forall VD1; ...; VDn  ·  F is equivalent to forall VD1  ·  ... forall VDn  ·  F; and forall V_1, ..., V_n : S   ·  F is equivalent to forall V_1 : S  ·  ... forall V_n : S  ·  F. Similarly for the other quantifiers. The scope of a variable declaration in a quantification is the component formula F, and an inner declaration for a variable with the same identifier as in an outer declaration overrides the outer declaration (regardless of whether the sorts of the variables are the same).


CoFI Document: CASL/Summary --Version 0.99-- 21 April 1998.
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