The Phenomenology of Second-Level Inference: Perfumes in The Deductive Garden

We comment on certain features that second-level inference rules commonly used in mathematical proof sometimes have, sometimes lack: suppositions, indirectness, goal-simplification, goal-preservation and premise-preservation. The emphasis is on the roles of these features, which we call 'perfum...

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Main Author: David Makinson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Lodz University Press 2020-12-01
Series:Bulletin of the Section of Logic
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Online Access:https://czasopisma.uni.lodz.pl/bulletin/article/view/8550