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The Story of \(\gamma \)

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This paper recounts the history and solution of the problem of admissibility of the rule \(\gamma \) in the context of E and other relevance logics.

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Urquhart, A. (2016). The Story of \(\gamma \) . In: Bimbó, K. (eds) J. Michael Dunn on Information Based Logics. Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol 8. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29300-4_6

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