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Twenty years ago I wrote the following:
Logic deals with what follows from what. ...The correctness of a piece ...does not depend on what the reasoning is about.
(Robinson, 1979, p. 1)
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Robinson, J.A. (2000). Proof = Guarantee + Explanation. In: Hölldobler, S. (eds) Intellectics and Computational Logic. Applied Logic Series, vol 19. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9383-0_17
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