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Gentzenization

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Etymology

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From Gentzen +‎ -ization.

Noun

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Gentzenization (countable and uncountable, plural Gentzenizations)

  1. Conversion of a logic into a Gentzenian form.
    • 1968, Nicholas Rescher, Topics in Philosophical Logic:
      Proof Theory (theory of axiomatizability, Gentzenization)
    • 1973, J. Jay Zeman, Modal Logic: The Lewis Modal Systems, Clarendon Press, page 198:
      We shall recall that at the heart of the Gentzenization of the absolutely strict systems was the rule → L []
    • 2012, M. Dunn, Truth or Consequences: Essays in Honor of Nuel Belnap[1], page 231:
      When I first arrived in 1963, the hunt was on to find a Gentzenization of relevance logic, and not only his graduate seminars but mine too got caught up in the search.