X-Git-Url: http://lambda.jimpryor.net/git/gitweb.cgi?p=lambda.git;a=blobdiff_plain;f=week2.mdwn;h=eedc6de0458e1046e2b9ec5bdee7f4ac6dfd28da;hp=ce2df76df252e30b20e142599925ed771e6097a2;hb=82558787dab095c164d4a6d2cdfceebc9b335698;hpb=6b354c56b73998dfcdd5be0f148ad24f1b9fed1d diff --git a/week2.mdwn b/week2.mdwn index ce2df76d..eedc6de0 100644 --- a/week2.mdwn +++ b/week2.mdwn @@ -241,7 +241,7 @@ in two books in the 1990's. A final linguistic application: Steedman's Combinatory Categorial Grammar, where the "Combinatory" is from combinatory logic (see especially his 2000 book, The Syntactic Processs). Steedman attempts to build -a syntax/semantics interface using a small number of combinators, including T = `\xy.yx`, B = `\fxy.f(xy)`, +a syntax/semantics interface using a small number of combinators, including T ≡ `\xy.yx`, B ≡ `\fxy.f(xy)`, and our friend S. Steedman used Smullyan's fanciful bird names for the combinators, Thrush, Bluebird, and Starling. @@ -318,6 +318,8 @@ will eta-reduce by n steps to: \x. M +When we add eta-reduction to our proof system, we end up reconstruing the meaning of `~~>` and `<~~>` and "normal form", all in terms that permit eta-reduction as well. Sometimes these expressions will be annotated to indicate whether only beta-reduction is allowed (~~>β) or whether both beta- and eta-reduction is allowed (~~>βη). + The logical system you get when eta-reduction is added to the proof system has the following property: > if `M`, `N` are normal forms with no free variables, then M ≡ N iff `M` and `N` behave the same with respect to every possible sequence of arguments.