Tyrrell_McAllister comments on Notion of Preference in Ambient Control - Less Wrong
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Maybe we're not using the terminology in exactly the same way.
For me, an interpretation of a theory is an ordered pair (D, v), where D is a set (the domain of discourse), and v is a map (the valuation map) satisfying certain conditions. In particular, D is the codomain of v restricted to the constant symbols, so v actually contains everything needed to recover the interpretation. For this reason, I sometimes abuse notation and call v itself the interpretation.
The valuation map v
maps constant symbols to elements of D,
maps n-ary function symbols to maps from D^n to D,
maps n-ary predicate symbols to subsets of D^n,
maps sentences of the theory into {T, F}, in a way that satisfies some recursive rules coming from the rules of inference.
Now, in the post, you write
(Emphasis added.) I've been working with the bolded option, which I understand to be saying that A and 1 are constant symbols. Hence, given an interpretation (D, v), v(A) and v(1) are elements of D, so we can ask whether they are the same elements.
I agree with everything you wrote here...
What was your "associated mapping K"? I took it to be what I'm calling the valuation map v. That's the only map that I associate to an interpretation.
K has a very small domain. Say, K("2+2")=K("5")="pull the second lever", K("4") undefined, K("A") undefined. Your v doesn't appear to be similarly restricted.