CSCE 476/876, Spring 2016, Glossary 9
Assigned: Monday, March 28, 2016.
Due:
Monday, April 4, 2016.
Note: Glossaries are optional but help you improve your grade. Clearly
acknowledge your sources (textbook, slides, etc.) or no credit will be given.
You are not allowed to cut and paste from any source.
- And-elimination
- Assertion
- Arity (of a relation or a function)
- Atomic sentences
- Axiom
- Backward chaining
- Biconditional
- Horn clause:
- Body (of a Horn clause)
- Head (of a Horn clause)
- Horn clauses
- Complementary literals
- Compositionality
- Conjunctive normal form
- Data driven
- Deduction theorem
- Fixed point
- Forward chaining
- Goal-directed reasoning
- k-CNF
- Literal
- Logical connectives
- Logical equivalence
- Modus ponens
- Monotonicity (of inference)
- Predicate symbol
- Premise
- Propositional logic
- Proposition symbol
- Reduction ad absurdum
- Refutation completeness
- Resolution
- Resolution closure
- Satisfiability
- Tautology
- Term
- Theorem
- Truth table
- Unit clause
- Validity
Berthe Y. Choueiry
choueiry@cse.unl.edu