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Further remarks on the dual negation in team logics

Logic 2024-10-10 v1 Logic in Computer Science

Abstract

The dual or game-theoretical negation ¬\lnot of independence-friendly logic (IF) and dependence logic (D) exhibits an extreme degree of semantic indeterminacy in that for any pair of sentences ϕ\phi and ψ\psi of IF/D, if ϕ\phi and ψ\psi are incompatible in the sense that they share no models, there is a sentence θ\theta of IF/D such that ϕθ\phi\equiv \theta and ψ¬θ\psi\equiv \lnot \theta (as shown originally by Burgess in the equivalent context of the prenex fragment of Henkin quantifier logic). We show that by adjusting the notion of incompatibility employed, analogues of this result can be established for a number of modal and propositional team logics, including Aloni's bilateral state-based modal logic, Hawke and Steinert-Threlkeld's semantic expressivist logic for epistemic modals, as well as propositional dependence logic with the dual negation. Together with its converse, a result of this type can be seen as an expressive completeness theorem with respect to the relevant incompatibility notion; we formulate a notion of expressive completeness for pairs of properties to make this precise.

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@article{arxiv.2410.07067,
  title  = {Further remarks on the dual negation in team logics},
  author = {Aleksi Anttila},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2410.07067},
  year   = {2024}
}

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48 pages, 2 figures