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Ockham algebra
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Etymology
Named after the English Franciscan friar and scholastic philosopher William of Ockham (1287–1347) by Alasdair Urquhart in 1979. The notion was introduced by Joel Berman in 1977.
Noun
Ockham algebra
en algebra A bounded distributive lattice with a dual endomorphism (where “dual” means that it satisfies De Morgan’s laws).
Hypernyms
distributive lattice
Hyponyms
Boolean algebra
De Morgan algebra
Kleene algebra
Stone algebra