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Glossary term S

Summary Relation

Definition

A summary relation is a contraction relation in which a proposition(s) repeats, in abbreviated form, the information of a group of propositions previously expressed.

See also

Proposition

Sources 3

  1. Mann and Thompson 1987b, 72
  2. Beekman and Callow 1974, 299
  3. Beekman, Callow, and Kopesec 1981, 97
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