15-815 Automated Theorem Proving
Lecture 12: The First-Order Inverse Method

In this lecture we show how to generalize the inverse method from intuitionistic propositional logic to the first-order case. The treatment of quantifiers requires some care and places slightly different requirements on the notion of unification than backwards search. In particular, we will need most general unifiers and the notion of parameter variables, that is, variables that can stand only for parameters.

We first proceed by example and then given a presentation of the rules that is amenable to soundness and completeness proofs.


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