Monday, August 13, 2007

Quote of the Day

Just saw this while researching a contribution to Wikipedia's type theory article:
Moreover we shall adopt the customary, self-explanatory, usage, according to which symbols belonging to the formal language serve in the syntax language (English) as names for themselves, and juxtaposition serves to denote juxtaposition.
Whoah.

Reference:

Alonzo Church. A formulation of the simple theory of types. The Journal of Symbolic Logic 5(2):56-68, Jun. 1940.