The notion of a framework and a framework for LTC
Paul Francis Mendler, Peter Aczel · 2003
A precise notion of a formal framework, meant to capture the intuition of an open-ended range of deductive interpreted languages, is proposed. A particular framework called the logical theory of constructions (LTC) is developed as an example. A series of languages in the LTC framework is defined, demonstrating how a language can be thought of as gradually evolving.>