Wikipedia:WikiProject Logic/Standards for notation

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In addition to the standards suggested for all Wikipedia articles, special attention to the following while expanding logic articles:

Guidelines for Philosophy articles
 * Guidelines for readability in philosophy articles.
 * Style guide for philosophy articles.
 * Requirements for criticisms in philosophy articles
 * In-text citations should be made using the Cite.php system.

Guidelines for Mathematics articles


 * WikiProject Mathematics/Conventions (a working list of terminology conventions)
 * Naming conventions (theorems)
 * Manual of Style (mathematics)
 * Algorithms on Wikipedia
 * Scientific citation guidelines

These standards, as with all Wikipedia guidelines, are not obligatory. However, it should be noted that any article that is seeking featured article status should comply with these standards.

Note that new standards should be subjected to consensus building before being added here (a consensus should be reached on the discussion page).

Standard
For consistency use the following preferred symbols and terminology in Logic articles

It is useful to have an agreed set of symbols and terminology. Not only do symbols vary from author to author, but any symbol may be written in a variety of fonts which may or may not appear on various browsers. The aim is consistency and legibility

Symbols
For consistency use the following preferred symbols in Logic articles:

Terminology
For consistency use the following terminology in Logic articles: Drafting in progress drafted cf Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Logic/Standards for notation It's good to talk (and a common language can only help.)

Common basis for syntax and semantics
One can talk about syntax while ignoring any possible semantics, or talk about semantics while ignoring that there might be a language describing them. The terms in the following table are common to both aspects.

Note: Nullary function symbols are constant symbols, and nullary predicate/relation symbols are propositional/sentential symbols. What differs about first-order logic between authors is 1) whether constant symbols are called (nullary) function symbols, and 2) whether proposition symbols are even allowed.

Syntax
The terms in the following table are used when working with syntax and are only marginally related to semantics.

Semantics
The terms in the following table relate to semantics; they are not needed when discussing only syntax, although of course they motivate the syntax.