Bounded Inquisitive Logics: Sequent Calculi and Schematic Validity
Abstract
Propositional inquisitive logic is the limit of its -bounded approximations. In the predicate setting, however, this does not hold anymore, as discovered by Ciardelli and Grilletti, who also found complete axiomatizations of -bounded inquisitive logics , for every fixed . We introduce cut-free labelled sequent calculi for these logics. We illustrate the intricacies of \textit{schematic validity} in such systems by showing that the well-known Casari formula is \textit{atomically} valid in (a weak sublogic of) predicate inquisitive logic , fails to be schematically valid in it, and yet is schematically valid under the finite boundedness assumption. The derivations in our calculi, however, are guaranteed to be schematically valid whenever a single specific rule is not used.
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@article{arxiv.2507.13946,
title = {Bounded Inquisitive Logics: Sequent Calculi and Schematic Validity},
author = {Tadeusz Litak and Katsuhiko Sano},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.13946},
year = {2025}
}
Comments
This is a modified and expanded version of a paper accepted for TABLEAUX 2025. In particular, readers should note that the numeration of environments is different in the conference version