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Propositional Circumscriptions

Yves Moinard, Raymond Rolland

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Yves Moinard, Raymond Rolland. Propositional Circumscriptions. [Research Report] RR-3538, INRIA. 1998. <inria-00073147>

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https://hal.inria.fr/inria-00073147

Submitted on 24 May 2006

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