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Fixed Point Logics
• s = vocabulary, R Ï s
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•Let f(R, x) be a formula over s [ {R}
      here |x| = arity(R)
•[that is, x are all the free variables in f]
•Define three new formulas:
[lfpR, x f(R, x)][t]
[ifpR, x f(R, x)][t]
[pfpR, x f(R, x)][t]