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Type Systems and Logic

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> Hindley-Milner type systems – which I here use to refer broadly to type systems like those used by Haskell and OCaml – correspond to propositional logic.

Is this true? HM type systems at least have a limited form of universal quantification (type schemes), which means we're dealing with predicate calculus, not propositional logic.