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This paper describes some experiments involving the automated theorem-proving program OTTER in the system TRC of illative combinatory logic. We show how OTTER can be steered to find a contradiction in an inconsistent variant of TRC, and present some experimentally discovered identities in TRC.
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This work was supported by the Office of Scientific Computing U.S. Department of Energy, under the Summer 1994 Faculty Research Participation Program at Argonne National Laboratory.
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Jech, T. OTTER experiments in a system of combinatory logic. J Autom Reasoning 14, 413–426 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881715
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00881715