Why φ?
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Joao Marcos
May 10, 2018, 8:31:05 AM5/10/18
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"Does anyone know why we traditionally use Greek phi and psi for
metasyntactic variables representing arbitrary logic formulas? Is it
just because ‘formula’ begins with an ‘f’ sound? And chi was being
used for other things?"
http://richardzach.org/2018/05/01/why-%CF%86/
JM
metasyntactic variables representing arbitrary logic formulas? Is it
just because ‘formula’ begins with an ‘f’ sound? And chi was being
used for other things?"
http://richardzach.org/2018/05/01/why-%CF%86/
JM
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