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On simplifying the matrix of a wff

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Peter Andrews
Peter Andrews*
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Carnegie-Mellon University
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In [3], [4], and [5] Joyce Friedman formulated and investigated certain rules which constitute a semi-decision procedure for wffs of first order predicate calculus in closed prenex normal form with prefixes of the form ∀x1 … ∀xκ∃y1 … ∃ym∀z1 … ∀zn. Given such a wff QM, where Q is the prefix and M is the matrix in conjunctive normal form, Friedman's rules can be used, in effect, to construct a matrix M* which is obtained from M by deleting certain conjuncts of M.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 33 , Issue 2 , 23 July 1968 , pp. 180 - 192
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1968

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