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We highlight the fundamental influence that the work of Alasdair Urquhart has had in the area of distributive lattice-ordered algebras and in particular to the development of Ockham algebras, to which we attach some new results.
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H.P. Sankappanavar
State University of New York at New Paltz
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This work is partially supported by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, under the project UIDB/00297/2020 (Centro de Matemática e Aplicaões). The authors are indebted to Professor Sankappanavar for his very helpful comments which have served to improve the original presentation.
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Blyth, T.S., Silva, H.J. (2022). Ockham Algebras—An Urquhart Legacy. In: Düntsch, I., Mares, E. (eds) Alasdair Urquhart on Nonclassical and Algebraic Logic and Complexity of Proofs. Outstanding Contributions to Logic, vol 22. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-71430-7_14
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