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Replacement Rules: The Concept

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Replacement rules are equivalences: they swap interchangeable forms, in either direction, applied to whole lines *or any part of a line*.

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Inference rules are one-way and whole-line; replacement rules are two-way and reach inside formulas.

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This difference in reach is exactly why the system needs both kinds. The "::" in what follows means "replace either side with the other."