Inquiry Into Inquiry<p><strong>Cactus Language • Preliminaries 5</strong></p><p>The easiest way to define the language is to indicate the general run of operations required to construct the greater share of its sentences from the designated few which require a special election.</p><p>To do that we introduce a family of operations called <i>syntactic connectives</i> on the strings of If the strings on which they operate are already sentences of then the operations amount to <i>sentential connectives</i>. If the syntactic sentences, viewed as abstract strings of uninterpreted signs, are provided with a semantics where they denote propositions, in other words, indicator functions on a universe of discourse, then the operations amount to <i>propositional connectives</i>.</p><p>Rather than presenting the most concise description of cactus languages right from the beginning, it aids comprehension to develop a picture of their forms in gradual stages, starting with the most natural ways of viewing their elements, if somewhat at a distance, and working through the most easily grasped impressions of their structures, if not always the sharpest acquaintances with their details.</p><p>We begin by defining two sets of basic operations on strings of </p> Concatenation <p>The <i>concatenation</i> of one string is the string </p><p>The <i>concatenation</i> of two strings is the string </p><p>The <i>concatenation</i> of strings is the string </p> Surcatenation <p>The <i>surcatenation</i> of one 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