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Building in special theories into first order calculi is used in various applications of deduction to increase efficiency of proof procedures. We give a brief review of methods for the combination of theories with deduction or logic programming. We show how a whole family of first order calculi can be extended for theory handling; these calculi are related to each other by a simulability relation. One of these calculi is tableau model elimination which can be implemented very efficiently by Prolog Technology Theorem Proving (PTTP). A PPTP-prover which is able to handle universal theories is presented and some examples are given to show that the use of built-in theories can increase efficiency drastically.
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Furbach, U. (1994). Theory reasoning in first order calculi. In: von Luck, K., Marburger, H. (eds) Management and Processing of Complex Data Structures. IS/KI 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 777. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57802-1_8
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