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The paper contains a survey of results in various areas of logic and theoretical computer science which seem to have similar logical structure. The author believes that similarity is not restricted to similar frasing of results and that many of the results described below can be proved in a uniform way.
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Pacholski, L. (1993). Undecidability of implication problems in logic programming, database theory and classical logic. In: Gottlob, G., Leitsch, A., Mundici, D. (eds) Computational Logic and Proof Theory. KGC 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 713. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0022554
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