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BIRTHDAY
2006
Springer
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Reductio ad Absurdum: Planning Proofs by Contradiction
Sometimes it is pragmatically useful to prove a theorem by contradiction rather than finding a direct proof. Some reductio ad absurdum arguments have made mathematical history and ...
Erica Melis, Martin Pollet, Jörg H. Siekmann
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2008
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Logics for the Relational Syllogistic
The Aristotelian syllogistic cannot account for the validity of certain inferences involving relational facts. In this paper, we investigate the prospects for providing a relationa...
Ian Pratt-Hartmann, Lawrence S. Moss