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Misc wording improvements #94

Closed davidvandebunte closed 8 months ago

davidvandebunte commented 8 months ago

In section 12.5, change:

This says that there is no valuation which makes all the sentences mentioned on the left side of ⊨ true whilst making 𝒞 false.

To:

This says that there is no valuation which makes all the sentences mentioned on the left side of ⊨ true whilst making all the sentences on the right side false.

This would make it easier to understand how 𝒜 ⊨ is another way of saying that 𝒜 is a contradiction.


The A in the first AS in 18.5 Proceed indirectly should probably be an 𝒜.


In 23.2 Names it seems unnecessary to include the following sentence:

(Equally, there are at least two people with the name ‘P. D. Magnus’.)

Most readers will already be familiar with the fact that many full names are reused and won't need a second example of it as proof.