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simple formalisation of the nominal logic work.\smallskip
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- {\bf Contributions of the paper:} The main contribution of this paper is in
- showing an example of how theorem proving tools can be improved by getting
- the right level of abstraction for the underlying theory.
+ {\bf Contributions of the paper:} Using a single atom type to represent
+ atoms of different sorts and representing permutations as functions are not
+ new ideas. The main contribution of this paper is to show an example of how
+ to make better theorem proving tools by choosing the right level of
+ abstraction for the underlying theory---our design choices take advantage of
+ Isabelle's type system, type classes, and reasoning infrastructure.
The novel
technical contribution is a mechanism for dealing with
``Church-style'' lambda-terms \cite{Church40} and HOL-based languages