Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 March 2014
By inequation is meant an expression of the form,
where a, b are terms taken from any first-order formal language. An inequation is consistent iff it cannot be brought to the form,
by substitution.
This is part of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted at Bristol in 1964. I am very much indebted to J. C. Shepherdson for supervising the work, and to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for a grant. An abstract of the paper was read at the 1964 Logic Colloquium (Bristol).
1 This is part of the author's doctoral thesis, submitted at Bristol in 1964. I am very much indebted to J. C. Shepherdson for supervising the work, and to the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research for a grant. An abstract of the paper was read at the 1964 Logic Colloquium (Bristol).