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The concept of the general-purpose reasoning assistant system is presented. We have developed the first version of a system named EUODHILOS as a prototype of that kind of system. It assists the user in describing the syntax of the logical expressions, defining a variety of logics which consists of axioms, inference rules, and rewriting rules, and also in constructing proofs for theorems under the logic so defined. Proofs are constructed under the support of the facility named “sheet of thought”, which is an interactive and visual proof editing environment. Proofs are expressed and edited in the tree structured forms of the natural deduction-like style.
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Minami, T., Sawamura, H., Tsuchiya, K. (1989). EUODHILOS: A general-purpose reasoning assistant system — Concept and implementation —. In: Furukawa, K., Tanaka, H., Fujisaki, T. (eds) Logic Programming '88. LP 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 383. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51564-X_63
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