States
Objects designated by the terms
- and
will be called states of the object S [Zinoviev, 1973, chapter nine "Empirical and Abstract Objects", section 6 "States", p. 135 of 323].
Let's look at the meaning of individual symbols in this definition.
- The symbol is "the fact that" operator.
- s refers to a term of object [Zinoviev, 1973, p. 113 of 323].
- P refers to a term of attribute [Zinoviev, 1973, p. 113 of 323].
- most likely refers to the operator of assertion.
- indicates the presence or absence of or [Zinoviev, 1973, p. 114 of 323]
- E is the existential predicate [Zinoviev, 1973, section "11. Existential Predicate", pp. 124—125 of 323].