AssociativeFunction | | | identityElement | | distributes | A BinaryFunction is associative if bracketing has no effect on the value returned by the Function. More precisely, a Function ?FUNCTION is associative just in case (?FUNCTION ?INST1 (?FUNCTION ?INST2 ?INST3)) is equal to (?FUNCTION (?FUNCTION ?INST1 ?INST2) ?INST3), for all ?INST1, ?INST2, and ?INST3 | (=> (instance ?FUNCTION AssociativeFunction) (forall (?INST1 ?INST2 ?INST3) (=> (and (instance ?INST1 (DomainFn ?FUNCTION)) (instance ?INST2 (DomainFn ?FUNCTION)) (instance ?INST3 (DomainFn ?FUNCTION))) (equal (AssignmentFn ?FUNCTION ?INST1 (AssignmentFn ?FUNCTION ?INST1 ?INST2)) (AssignmentFn ?FUNCTION (AssignmentFn ?FUNCTION ?INST1 ?INST2) ?INST3)))))
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RelationExtendedToQuantities | | | valence | | subrelation | A RelationExtendedToQuantities is a Relation that, when it is true on a sequence of arguments that are RealNumbers, it is also true on a sequence of ConstantQuantites with those magnitudes in some unit of measure. For example, the lessThan relation is extended to quantities. This means that for all pairs of quantities ?QUANTITY1 and ?QUANTITY2, (lessThan ?QUANTITY1 ?QUANTITY2) if and only if, for some ?NUMBER1, ?NUMBER2, and ?UNIT, ?QUANTITY1 = (MeasureFn ?NUMBER1 ?UNIT), ?QUANTITY2 = (MeasureFn ?NUMBER2 ?UNIT), and (lessThan ?NUMBER1 ?NUMBER2), for all units ?UNIT on which ?QUANTITY1 and ?QUANTITY2 can be measured. Note that, when a RelationExtendedToQuantities is extended from RealNumbers to ConstantQuantities, the ConstantQuantities must be measured along the same physical dimension | (=> (and (instance ?REL RelationExtendedToQuantities) (instance ?REL BinaryRelation) (instance ?NUMBER1 RealNumber) (instance ?NUMBER2 RealNumber) (holds ?REL ?NUMBER1 ?NUMBER2)) (forall (?UNIT) (=> (instance ?UNIT UnitOfMeasure) (holds ?REL (MeasureFn ?NUMBER1 ?UNIT) (MeasureFn ?NUMBER2 ?UNIT)))))
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