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A formulation of the simple theory of types

The work

AuthorsAlonzo Church
Editors
Typearticle
Year1940
Citekeychurch1940formulation

Where it appeared

Published inJournal of Symbolic Logic
PublisherCambridge University Press
Volume5
Issue2
Pages56--68

Identifiers

DOI10.2307/2266170
OpenAlexW1996404651

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Abstract

The purpose of the present paper is to give a formulation of the simple theory of types which incorporates certain features of the calculus of λ-conversion. A complete incorporation of the calculus of λ-conversion into the theory of types is impossible if we require that λx and juxtaposition shall retain their respective meanings as an abstraction operator and as denoting the application of function to argument. But the present partial incorporation has certain advantages from the point of view of type theory and is offered as being of interest on this basis (whatever may be thought of the finally satisfactory character of the theory of types as a foundation for logic and mathematics). For features of the formulation which are not immediately connected with the incorporation of λ-conversion, we are heavily indebted to Whitehead and Russell, Hilbert and Ackermann, Hilbert and Bernays, and to forerunners of these, as the reader familiar with the works in question will recognize. The class of type symbols is described by the rules that ı and o are each type symbols and that if α and β are type symbols then (αβ) is a type symbol: it is the least class of symbols which contains the symbols ı and o and is closed under the operation of forming the symbol (αβ) from the symbols α and β.

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@article{church1940formulation,
  title        = {A formulation of the simple theory of types},
  author       = {Alonzo Church},
  year         = {1940},
  journal      = {Journal of Symbolic Logic},
  publisher    = {Cambridge University Press},
  volume       = {5},
  number       = {2},
  pages        = {56--68},
  doi          = {10.2307/2266170},
}

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