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This paper gives a simple, elegant statement of the condensed detachment rule that is independent of most general unifiers and proves that this is equivalent to the longer, more usual, formulation.
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Bunder, M.W. A simplified form of condensed detachment. J Logic Lang Inf 4, 169–173 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01048619
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01048619