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Propagating Axioms via Meaningfulness

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The meaningfulness condition introduced in Definition 5.2.1 and Equation (5.6) has a remarkable property. In some cases, a condition imposed on a single code of a meaningful collection may be automatically transported to all the codes in the collection. This applies to many properties, such as solvability, quasi-permutability, symmetry, differentiability, and others.

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Falmagne, JC., Doble, C. (2015). Propagating Axioms via Meaningfulness. In: On Meaningful Scientific Laws. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-46098-6_6

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