Rigorous Reasoning

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Inference Rule

A schematic pattern that licenses the derivation of a conclusion from one or more premises, such as modus ponens or disjunctive syllogism.

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Inference rules are the building blocks of formal proof and turn validity checking into step-by-step derivation.

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