# Translating Higher-Order Clauses to First-Order Clauses

@article{Meng2007TranslatingHC,
title={Translating Higher-Order Clauses to First-Order Clauses},
author={Jia Meng and Lawrence Charles Paulson},
journal={Journal of Automated Reasoning},
year={2007},
volume={40},
pages={35-60}
}
• Published 15 September 2007
• Computer Science
• Journal of Automated Reasoning
Interactive provers typically use higher-order logic, while automatic provers typically use first-order logic. To integrate interactive provers with automatic ones, one must translate higher-order formulas to first-order form. The translation should ideally be both sound and practical. We have investigated several methods of translating function applications, types, and λ-abstractions. Omitting some type information improves the success rate but can be unsound, so the interactive prover must…
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