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The saturated tableaux for linear miniscoped horn-like temporal logic

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A new type of tableau system is proposed for the complete class (called miniscoped Horn-like) of first-order linear temporal logic. The described system instead of induction-like postulates contains some nonlogical axioms indicating the saturation of a derivation process in this system.

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Pliuškevičius, R. The saturated tableaux for linear miniscoped horn-like temporal logic. J Autom Reasoning 13, 391–407 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881951

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