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Maximality of bi-intuitionistic propositional logic

Logic 2021-04-08 v1

Abstract

In the style of Lindstr\"om's theorem for classical first-order logic, this article characterizes propositional bi-intuitionistic logic as the maximal (with respect to expressive power) abstract logic satisfying a certain form of compactness, the Tarski union property and preservation under bi-asimulations. Since bi-intuitionistic logic introduces new complexities in the intuitionistic setting by adding the analogue of a backwards looking modality, the present paper constitutes a non-trivial modification of previous work done by the authors for intuitionistic logic in: G. Badia and G. Olkhovikov. A Lindstr\"om theorem for intuitionistic propositional logic. Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic, 61 (1): 11-30 (2020).

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@article{arxiv.2104.03052,
  title  = {Maximality of bi-intuitionistic propositional logic},
  author = {Grigory Olkhovikov and Guillermo Badia},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2104.03052},
  year   = {2021}
}

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27 pages, 0 figures. arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2103.17024

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