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The concepts of question evocation and erotetic implication play central role in Inferential Erotetic Logic. In this paper, deduction theorems for question evocation and erotetic implication are proven. Moreover, it is shown how question evocation by a finite non-empty set of declaratives can be reduced to question evocation by the empty set, and how erotetic implication based on a finite non-empty set of declaratives can be reduced to a relation between questions only.
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Wiśniewski, A. Deduction and Reduction Theorems for Inferential Erotetic Logic. Stud Logica 106, 295–309 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-017-9738-8
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