Andrews' Type Theory with Undefinedness
Abstract
is an elegant version of Church's type theory formulated and extensively studied by Peter B. Andrews. Like other traditional logics, does not admit undefined terms. The "traditional approach to undefinedness" in mathematical practice is to treat undefined terms as legitimate, nondenoting terms that can be components of meaningful statements. is a modification of Andrews' type theory that directly formalizes the traditional approach to undefinedness. This paper presents and proves that the proof system of is sound and complete with respect to its semantics which is based on Henkin-style general models. The paper's development of closely follows Andrews' development of to clearly delineate the differences between the two systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1406.7492,
title = {Andrews' Type Theory with Undefinedness},
author = {William M. Farmer},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1406.7492},
year = {2014}
}
Comments
This research was supported by NSERC. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:1406.6706