The thesis that, in a system of natural deduction, the meaning of a logical constant is given by some or all of its introduction and elimination rules has been developed recently in the work of ...

Utilizing an idea that has its first appearance in Gerhard Gentzen's unpublished manuscripts, we generate an exhaustive repertoire of all the possible inference rules that are related to the left ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...