Similarly, each function symbol is given a declaration of the sorts of arguments it requires and the sort of value it produces, and each relation has a declaration of the sorts of arguments it expects.
Declarations of that sort had been made in the quiet times before the great floods of 1884, 1890, 1891, 1897, 1898, and 1903, and they would be made again before 1912, 1913, 1922, and 1927.
Except in regard to the fundamental questions of the existence of God, Islamic revelation, and future reward and punishment, the juridical conditions for declaring someone an unbeliever or beyond the pale of Islam were so demanding as to make it almost impossible to make a valid declaration of this sort about a professing Muslim.
That hasn't happened, and so declarations of defeat in Iraq — of the sort our founder and editor-at-large William F. Buckley Jr. made last week — are pre-mature.
And the Internet, for all its glories, has created quite a potent toolbox: it is loaded with films, screeds, and declarations of every sort: Nazi manifestos, anti-Muslim tracts, anti-Semitic rants, racist monologues, woman-hating extravaganzas — every shade of ugly, take your pick.
(Radames to Aida, when he demands that she scrub his naked torso: "You are much better with a sword than you are with a sponge".) There are also instances of the sort of camp declarations more common to Charles Ludlam-ish parodies.
or something of the sort.
The declarations of the function symbols follow.
