formal equivalence

British

noun

logic the relation that holds between two open sentences when their universal closures are materially equivalent

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As expressed in the capacity to discriminate departures from formal equivalence among the groups, this function reached its maximum, for those concerned in this investigation, at rates varying individually from 0.3 sec. to 0.6 sec. in the value of their intervals.

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