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Effect axioms and monotonic frame axioms

 

It is common to cut some corners so as to keep the axioms short.

  equation23

Remark: We have cut a corner in (1) by letting a block itself be a place, i.e. the top of the block. To uncut this corner, we can write

  equation27

The price is dealing with the extra function top.

  equation30

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John McCarthy
Thu Jan 30 13:14:14 PDT 1997