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Axiomatizations with Context Rules of Inference in Modal Logic

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A certain type of inference rules in (multi-) modal logics, generalizing Gabbay's Irreflexivity rule, is introduced and some general completeness results about modal logics axiomatized with such rules are proved.

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Goranko, V. Axiomatizations with Context Rules of Inference in Modal Logic. Studia Logica 61, 179–197 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005021313747

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