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Building Atomic Sentences: Constant
Symbols (cont.)
•
function constants
- mappings between
tuples and things in the DOD
–
0-ary function - an object constant
–
n-ary function (n>0) - special case of n+1-ary
relation where n arguments uniquely determine
n+1st argument