the standard predicate calculus.

HC: You comment as follows:

JA: This sort of statement totally non-plusses me.
    It seems like a complete non-sequitur or even
    a contradiction in terms to me.

JA: The question is about the minimal adequate resource base for
    defining, deriving, or generating all of the concepts that we
    need for a given but very general type of application that we
    conventinally but equivocally refer to as &quot;logic&quot;.  You seem
    to be saying something like this: W