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Tao
a common spelling of Dao, an ancient Chineese philosophy and way of life.
tautology
  1. the saying of the same thing twice over in different words
  2. a statement in which the predicate asserts no more than is contained in the meaning of the subject
  3. an instance of a valid formula of propositional logic
  4. a complex proposition which is true independently of the truth values of its constituent atomic propositions
  5. a statement that is necessarily true
  6. an analytic statement
see also:
propositional tautology

te
A kind of inner virtue in the ancient Chineese philosophy of Dao.

temporal logic
A modal logic in which one can reason about time.

TOE - Theory Of Everything
A term used for the elusive goal of the quest to unify the fundamental (but incompatible) theories of physics, viz. general relativity and quantum theory. This would supposedly yield a single coherent (and true) theory (a TOE) to which all other scientific theories would be in principle reducible (which is where the everything comes from). (e.g. string theory)
token
an instance of a type
transitive
transitive relation
a relation is transitive iff for all elements x, y and z in the field of the relation, if x is related to y and y related to z then x is related to z.
transitive set
a set s is transitive iff every member of s is a subset of s.
truth
the property of being true
Turing machine
a kind of automaton invented by the logician Alan Turing for the purpose of establishing the existence of unsolvable problems
type
a collection of things or persons having common characteristics
type checking (computing)
a stage in the compilation or interpretation of computer programs in which the conformance of the program to defined typing rules is checked.
see also:
static type checking
strong type checking
type sentence (philosophy)
Used by some philosophers to distinguish a syntactical object from its instances (which are then called tokens). This sentence might then be called a type sentence of which the instance occurring on the screen in front of you is a token.
type system (computing)
a system for classifying data values manipulated by computer programs, usually specific to a particular high level programming language
see also:
polymorphic type system
pure type system
type theory (logic)
a logical system in which the domain of discourse consists of a number of types, each of which is a collection of elements (of that type), and in which logical variables are associated with a type and range over the elements of that type.
type variable (computing and logic)
In a typed programming language or logical system a type variable is a variable which ranges over some or all of the available types.
see also:
category
kind
sort


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