A Private Function Sarah Lancashire as Joyce. A Private Function A Private Function is a 1984 British comedy film starring Michael Palin and Maggie Smith. The film was predominantly filmed in Ilkley, Ben Rhydding, and Barnoldswick, in the West Riding of Yorkshire. The film was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 1985 Cannes Film Festival. In a small Northern English town in 1947 the citizens endure continuing food rationing. Some local businessmen want to hold a party to celebrate the royal wedding of Princess Elizabeth to Prince Philip and illegally decide to raise a pig for that occasion. However, the
History of the function concept that "[a] logical truth depends upon the "structure of the statement", and not upon the particular matters spoken of"; he wastes no time (preface page i) abstracting: "In the form of the proposition, the copula is made as abstract as the terms". He immediately (p. 1) casts what he calls "the proposition" (present-day propositional "function" or "relation") into a form such as "X is Y", where the symbols X, "is", and Y represent, respectively, the "subject", "copula", and "predicate." While the word "function" does not appear, the notion of "abstraction" is there, "variables" are there, the notion of inclusion in