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Axioms for strong reduction in combinatory logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Roger Hindley
Roger Hindley*
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University
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In combinatory logic there is a system of objects which intuitively represent functions, and a binary relation between these objects, which represents the process of evaluating the result of applying a function to an argument. (This is explained fully in [1].) From this relation called weak reduction, “≥,” an equivalence relation is defined by saying that X is weakly equivalent to Y if and only if there exist n (with 0 ≤ n) and X0,…,Xη such that

It turns out that equivalent objects represent the same function, but two objects representing the same function need not be equivalent.

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Research Article
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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 32 , Issue 2 , August 1967 , pp. 224 - 236
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1967

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[1]Curry, H. B. and Feys, R., Combinatory logic, vol. 1, North-Holland Co., Amsterdam, 1958.Google Scholar
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