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The concept of well-behaved inference rules is developed in first-order polynomial-based theorem proving. It is shown that well-behaved inference rules are complete for both the set of support strategy and the linear strategy. Furthermore, two concrete inference rules that are well behaved are presented, and two other strategies for them are described.
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Wu, J., Liu, Z. Well-Behaved Inference Rules for First-Order Theorem Proving. Journal of Automated Reasoning 21, 381–400 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006027228476
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1006027228476