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This article is the ninth of a series of articles discussing various open research problems in automated reasoning. Here we focus on finding an inference rule for set theory. The problem proposed for research asks one to find a means for building in set-theoretic reasoning in a manner similar to the way paramodulation builds in equality-oriented reasoning. For evaluating a proposed solution to this research problem, we include suggestions concerning possible test problems.
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This work was supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences subprogram of the Office of Energy Research, U.S. Department of Energy, under contract W-31-109-Eng-38.
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Wos, L. The problem of finding an inference rule for set theory. J Autom Reasoning 5, 93–95 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245023
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00245023