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Ockham algebra en · NOUN

Etymology

Named after the English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347) by Alasdair Urquhart in 1979. The notion was introduced by Joel Berman in 1977.

Meanings

  1. A bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism (where “dual” means that it satisfies De Morgan’s laws).

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Hypernyms

distributive lattice

Hyponyms

Boolean algebra · De Morgan algebra · Kleene algebra · Stone algebra

wikipedia: Alasdair Urquhart · wikipedia: William of Ockham