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definite clause

2023-09-19

definite clauses are disjunctions of literals of which exactly one is positive. existential quantifiers are not allowed, and universal quantifiers are left implicit: if you see an in a definite clause, that means there is an implicit quantifier.

A typical first-order definite clause looks like this:

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in propositional logic, the clause is a definite clause, whereas is not, because it has two positive clauses.