Variants and improvements

Abstract

For one and a half decades the field of ATP has been dominated by resolution. Not mentioning resolution in the first three out of five chapters, as we did in this book, could therefore be misinterpreted as a provocation. The real reason for this kind of treatment, however, is the fact that with the connection method at hand resolution may be explained in an elegant way, which is carried out in the first section of the present chapter. It even turns out in section 2 that a certain linear refinement of resolution differs from the connection method in representational details only. Hence, the contents of the previous chapters is actually not so far from resolution as it might have appeared.