Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In mathematics, the act of finding the residual or integral round a pole divided by 2PI; the process of finding residuals and co-residuals upon a cubic curve by linear constructions.
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- noun An editorial misreading for
recidivation .
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Examples
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This connection between the conditional and consequence is called residuation by analogy with the case in mathematics.
Substructural Logics Restall, Greg 2008
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“Gaggle theory: An abstraction of Galois connections and residuation with applications to negation, implication, and various logical operators,” in Logics in AI: European workshop JELIA
Combinatory Logic Bimbó, Katalin 2008
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Moreover, one interprets the implication by a residuation operation →.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] Giangiacomo Gerla 2008
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Moreover, one interprets the implication by a residuation operation →.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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Usually one considers the interval [0,1] one interprets the implication by the related residuation operation
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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In addition to the residuation condition giving the behaviour of ’, we may wish to define a new arrow as follows:
Substructural Logics Restall, Greg 2008
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X) then we can reason as follows, using just the identity axiom and residuation:
Substructural Logics Restall, Greg 2008
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