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Reasoning with contexts

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Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems (DISCO 1993)

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Contexts are sets of formulas used to manage the assumptions that arise in the course of a mathematical deduction or calculation. This paper describes some techniques for symbolic computation that are dependent on using contexts, and are implemented in IMPS, an Interactive Mathematical Proof System.

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  1. The MITRE Corporation, 202 Burlington Rd, 01730-1420, Bedford, MA, USA

    William M. Farmer, Joshua D. Guttman & F. Javier Thayer

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Farmer, W.M., Guttman, J.D., Thayer, F.J. (1993). Reasoning with contexts. In: Miola, A. (eds) Design and Implementation of Symbolic Computation Systems. DISCO 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 722. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0013179

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