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Valuation (mathematics)
Informally, a valuation is an assignment of particular values to the variables in a mathematical statement or equation. In logic and model theory, a valuation is either (i) an assignment of truth values to every atomic sentence, provided each element of the domain has a name in the case of first-order or higher languages, or (ii) a function from non-logical vocabulary to their corresponding objects defined on the domain (e.g. a function taking relation and function symbols to relations and functions defined on the domain, and constants to elements in the domain).
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