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Automating Reasoning

How to use a computer to help solve problems requiring logical reasoning

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How can a single computer program correctly solve the following problems and puzzles? How can you determine whether its answers are correct or not? How would you correctly solve each of the problems and puzzles?

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Wos, L. (1988). Automating Reasoning. In: Weiss, E.A. (eds) A Computer Science Reader. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8726-6_11

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