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Models
For a subsorted signature Sigma the subsorted models are
ordinary many-sorted models for Sigma# that satisfy the following
properties (which can be formalized as a set of conditional axioms):
- Embedding functions are total and 1-1; projection functions are
partial, and 1-1 when defined.
- The embedding of a sort into itself is the identity function.
- All compositions of embedding functions between the same two sorts are
equal functions.
- Embedding followed by projection is identity; projection followed
by embedding is included in identity.
- Membership in a subsort holds just when the projection to the subsort
is defined.
- Embedding is compatible with those functions and predicates that are
in the overloading relations.
CoFI Document: LanguageSummary --DRAFT, Version 0.96-- 30 April 1997.
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