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Bjørn Kjos-Hanssen
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Logical and alphabetological variant?

The notion of alphabetical variant is well known, so that a formula $x=x$ is an alphabetical variant of $y=y$ if $x$ and $y$ are distinct variables.

One may want to consider the set term $\{x:x \neq x \wedge A \}$ a logical variant of $\{x:x \neq x \}$ if A is a tautology of predicate logic. Given such notions of alphabetical and logical variants, one may consider $\{x:x \neq x \wedge A \}$ an alphabetological variant of $\{y:y \neq y\}$.

Do my notions of logical variant and alphabetological variant have provenances?