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Substitutional Definition of Satisfiability in Classical Propositional Logic

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The syntactic framework of the so-called saturated substitutions is defined and used to obtain new characterizations of SAT as well as the classes of minimal and maximal models of formulas of classical propositional logic.

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Belov, A., Stachniak, Z. (2005). Substitutional Definition of Satisfiability in Classical Propositional Logic. In: Bacchus, F., Walsh, T. (eds) Theory and Applications of Satisfiability Testing. SAT 2005. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 3569. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/11499107_3

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