[Attempto] or is interpreted as inclusive or , or xor?

Gabriele Kahlout gabriele at mysimpatico.com
Sat Jul 10 22:10:10 CEST 2010


I tried the editor for the FOL of 'A customer inserts a VisaCard or inserts
a MasterCard' but the below representation is not familiar to me:

exists(A, &(object(A, customer, countable, na, eq, 1)-1/2, v(exists(B,
exists(C, &(object(B, 'MasterCard', countable, na, eq, 1)-1/5, predicate(C,
insert, A, B)-1/3))), exists(D, exists(E, &(object(D, 'VisaCard', countable,
na, eq, 1)-1/9, predicate(E, insert, A, D)-1/7))))))

Is there any documentation for it?

As XOR I'd have written it as:

∃x. IsCustomer(x) ∧ (Inserts(x,VisaCard) ∨ Inserts(x,MasterCard)) ∧
¬(Inserts(x,Visacard) ∧ Inserts(x,MasterCard))

-- 
Regards,
K. Gabriele

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