functional calculus

1. 1.

   a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)

   Synonymspredicate calculus

   Broadersymbolic logic

   Partsquantification

Questions about functional calculus

What does functional calculus mean?

functional calculus means "a system of symbolic logic that represents individuals and predicates and quantification over individuals (as well as the relations between propositions)".

What is another word for functional calculus?

Close synonyms include predicate calculus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is functional calculus a common word?

functional calculus is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.