English

A Galois connection between classical and intuitionistic logics. II: Semantics

Logic 2022-10-04 v5

Abstract

Three classes of models of QHC, the joint logic of problems and propositions, are constructed, including a class of subset/sheaf-valued models that is related to solutions of some actual problems (such as solutions of algebraic equations). To test the models, we consider a number of principles and rules, which empirically appear to cover all "sufficiently simple" natural conjectures about the behaviour of the operators ! and ?, and include two hypotheses put forward by Hilbert and Kolmogorov, as formalized in the language of QHC. Each of these turns out to be either derivable in QHC or equivalent to one of 14 principles and rules, of which 11 are conservative over classical and intuitionistic logics. The three classes of models together suffice to confirm the independence of these 11 principles and rules, and to determine all implications between them, apart from one potential implication.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1504.03379,
  title  = {A Galois connection between classical and intuitionistic logics. II: Semantics},
  author = {Sergey A. Melikhov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.03379},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

40 pages, 1 figure. v3: Major revision of a half of v2: the results are improved and rewritten in terms of the meta-logic. The other half of v2 (Euclid's Elements as a theory over QHC) is expected to make part III after a revision. v5: Section 5 is added

R2 v1 2026-06-22T09:15:28.633Z