N. Goodman and W. V. Quine, "Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism", Journal of Symbolic Logic, 12 (1947). Symbol Convention
--> = material implication <--> = material equivalence & = conjunction ~ = negation V = disjunction (x) = universal quantifier (]x) = existential quantifier ^ = concatenation | = alternative denial (stroke) epsilon = epsilon =/= = not identical . : = parantheses