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Symbol is treated here as a primitive entity as point or line in geometry. Let Con = {f α : α < β} be a well-ordered set of symbols called a language type. β is an ordinal number. The elements of the above set are called connectives. To each connective f α a natural number α(α) ∈ w called the rank of f α or the arity of f α is assigned. The arity α(α) defines the number of arguments of f α . Thus we speak of nullary, unary, or binary connectives, etc. In the sequel Con is assumed to be fixed but arbitrary.