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Analytic Rules for Mereology

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We present a sequent calculus for extensional mereology. It extends the classical first-order sequent calculus with identity by rules of inference corresponding to well-known mereological axioms. Structural rules, including cut, are admissible.

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    Paolo Maffezioli

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Maffezioli, P. Analytic Rules for Mereology. Stud Logica 104, 79–114 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-015-9623-2

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