In common English usage the word “term”‘ is syntactical or semantical in character, and means simply a word (or phrase), or a word associated with its meaning. The phrase “undefined term” as used in mathematical postulate theory (see mathematics) is perhips best referred to this common meaning of “term ” In traditional logic, a term is a concept appearing as subject or predicate (q.v.). of a categorical proposition; also, a word or phrase denoting such a concept. The word “term” has also been employed in a syntactical sense in various special developments of logistic systems (q.v.), usually in a way suggested by the traditional usage.<\/p>\n
The mathematical use of the word “term” appears in such phrases ts “the terms of a sum” (i.e., the separate numbers which are added to form the sum, or the expressions for them), “the terms of a polynomial,” “the terms of a proportion,” “the terms of an infinite series,” etc. Similarly one may speak of “the terms of a logical sum,” and the like. — A.C.<\/p>\n
Term In common English usage the word “term”‘ is syntactical or semantical in character, and means simply a word (or phrase), or a word associated with its meaning. The phrase “undefined term” as used in mathematical postulate theory (see mathematics) is perhips best referred to this common meaning of “term ” In traditional logic, a … Continue reading “Term”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-89029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-encyclopedic-dictionary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89029","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=89029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/89029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=89029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=89029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/dictionaries\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=89029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}