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    A useful calculus must never lead from true hypotheses to... — Carmelics
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    Supports→A deductive calculus must be sound to be useful.

    A useful calculus must never lead from true hypotheses to false conclusions.

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    1 Deductive Calculi It is common in model theory to regard a logic as comprising at least three different things: a class of structures, a formal language to describe these structures, and a satisfaction relation that determines when a formula of the language is true with respect to a given structure. A deductive calculus might be added. In fact, any calculus for one-sorted first-order logic can be easily extended to a many-sorted one; the only rules which need to be adapted are the ones deali

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