Resolution is a crucial rule of inference in formal logic and propositional logic, primarily used in automated theorem proving and logic programming. It is based on the concept of combining clauses to produce new ones, ultimately leading to a proof of a given statement or demonstrating a contradiction. ### Key Concepts of Resolution: 1. **Clauses**: In propositional logic, a clause is a disjunction of literals (where a literal is an atomic proposition or its negation).
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