Skip to content
ontologydriven
Sign out

Dictionary

Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

substitution instance en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. A well-formed formula (wff) that has a constant term in place of a variable; expressed as Q(a/x), where the resulting wff is identical to Q except that the constant a takes the place of every free occurrence of the variable x.
    • The result of substituting a term a for all free occurrences of the variable x in the formula Q is denoted by Q(a/x). 1972, Alonzo Church, Introduction to Mathematical Logic, Princeton University Press, page 78:

Forms

SpellingFeaturesLabelsSource
substitution instances Number=Plur lexicographic

Antonyms

generalization