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- Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
- Path: sparky!uunet!mcsun!sunic!sics.se!torkel
- From: torkel@sics.se (Torkel Franzen)
- Subject: Re: Occurs check
- In-Reply-To: pereira@alice.att.com's message of 18 Dec 92 15:03:17 GMT
- Message-ID: <TORKEL.92Dec18231028@lludd.sics.se>
- Sender: news@sics.se
- Organization: Swedish Institute of Computer Science, Kista
- References: <1992Dec13.173016.8849@nntp.hut.fi> <1992Dec17.111142.24450@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- <24435@alice.att.com> <TORKEL.92Dec17201903@bast.sics.se>
- <24439@alice.att.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Dec 1992 22:10:28 GMT
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- In article <24439@alice.att.com> pereira@alice.att.com (Fernando Pereira)
- writes:
-
- >No, it is not too strong. I think you are confusing deduction in
- >an interpreted system (eg. Horn clauses over the domain of finite trees,
- >or of rational trees) with deduction that yields consequences true
- >in any model, that is, valid consequences.
-
- There is no confusion involved. It is merely a matter of "valid
- consequences of what". The answers yielded by a Prolog system using
- unification without occurs check are consequences in first order logic
- of the clauses of the program together with the first order identity
- theory of rational trees.
-