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Incorporating Quotation and Evaluation Into Church's Type Theory

Logic in Computer Science 2018-06-05 v4

Abstract

CTTqe{\rm CTT}_{\rm qe} is a version of Church's type theory that includes quotation and evaluation operators that are similar to quote and eval in the Lisp programming language. With quotation and evaluation it is possible to reason in CTTqe{\rm CTT}_{\rm qe} about the interplay of the syntax and semantics of expressions and, as a result, to formalize syntax-based mathematical algorithms. We present the syntax and semantics of CTTqe{\rm CTT}_{\rm qe} as well as a proof system for CTTqe{\rm CTT}_{\rm qe}. The proof system is shown to be sound for all formulas and complete for formulas that do not contain evaluations. We give several examples that illustrate the usefulness of having quotation and evaluation in CTTqe{\rm CTT}_{\rm qe}.

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@article{arxiv.1612.02785,
  title  = {Incorporating Quotation and Evaluation Into Church's Type Theory},
  author = {William M. Farmer},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1612.02785},
  year   = {2018}
}

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