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FOL

FOL is the initialism of first-order logic.

Meaning of first-order logic

Noun

first-order logic (countable and uncountable, plural first-order logics)

  1. A formal deductive system extended from propositional logic with the possibility to quantify over individuals of the domain of discourse.
    • At Cambridge in the mid-1990s, [Demis] Hassabis and [David] Silver encountered a culture still wedded to the midcentury assumptions. They were taught “first order logic,” a system of rigidly unambiguous statements that was used in deductive programming.2026, Sebastian Mallaby, chapter 2, in The Infinity Machine: Demis Hassabis, DeepMind and the Quest for Superintelligence, Penguin, →ISBN
    Synonyms:
    FOL

Phrases with FOL

Questions about FOL

What is FOL the initialism of?
FOL is the initialism of first-order logic.

Words near FOL in the dictionary

  1. fokonolona
  2. fokonolonas
  3. fokontanies
  4. fokontany
  5. FOKs
  6. FOL
  7. fol de rol
  8. fol de rols
  9. fol-de-rol
  10. fol-de-rols
  11. fol.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: FOL (page history and authors); first-order logic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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