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On Rewriting Rules in Mizar

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This paper presents some tentative experiments in using a special case of rewriting rules in Mizar (Mizar homepage: http://www.mizar.org/): rewriting a term as its subterm. A similar technique, but based on another Mizar mechanism called functor identification (Korniłowicz 2009) was used by Caminati, in his paper on basic first-order model theory in Mizar (Caminati, J Form Reason 3(1):49–77, 2010, Form Math 19(3):157–169, 2011). However for this purpose he was obligated to introduce some artificial functors. The mechanism presented in the present paper looks promising and fits the Mizar paradigm.

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Korniłowicz, A. On Rewriting Rules in Mizar. J Autom Reasoning 50, 203–210 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10817-012-9261-6

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Keywords

  • Proof assistant
  • Natural deduction
  • Computer algebra system
  • Term rewriting
  • Mizar