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Finite nest structures and propositional logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Raymond M. Smullyan*
Affiliation:
Belfer Graduate School of Science, New York, New York

Extract

Our terminology and notation is the same as that of [1], of which this note is a sequel.

We wish to show that if we take the natural deduction system (N) described in [1], and delete the rules for the quantifiers, we obtain a complete system for propositional logic. [Of course we now construe “X”, “Y”, “Z” as syntactic variables ranging over formulas of propositional logic, rather than sentences of quantification theory.] Moreover the system serves as a neat decision procedure.

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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1996

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