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1 with—in addition—a notation for structures: a overloaded tuple notation as mentioned above. We will use ' £ ' to denote this language, since we have been using this symbol to denote the language we are interpreting something into. '£*' will denote the language with—in addition to equality—the sole binary relation £ ('£' here is a pun on "edge" and "epsilon") whose variables will be upper-case CACCXQTZAVHXC font letters, with the exception of £ which is reserved for the pun. 1 Irredundant Arithmetic trees This example is due to Dana Scott.
The set of equivalence relations that are congruence relations for P is a chain-complete poset. If ~ is a congruence relation for P, so is any equivalence relation that is stricter than ~ . This is not the case for congruence relations for functions! The assertion that ~ is a congruence relation for P, and that it is a congruence relation for / are both horn, but there is an important difference in that the single unnegated atomic formula in the body of the horn clause in the second case involves ~ and in the first it doesn't.
We still have only two. Later we will be considering constructions that require us to make multiple copies. Chapter 4 Cardinal Arithmetic Remarkably one will not find a definition of cardinal arithmetic in the places where one might expect to find it, such as books or survey articles on the subject (Holtz-Steffens-Weitz [1999] for example, or Shelah [1992]) so there is still scope for a definition to be hawked. Here is a sloganising suggestion: Cardinal arithmetic is the study of those relations between sets for which equinumerosity is a congruence relation.