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On a four-valued logic of formal inconsistency and formal underterminedness

Logic 2022-12-06 v1

Abstract

Belnap-Dunn's relevance logic, BD, was designed seeking a suitable logical device for dealing with multiple information sources which sometimes may provide inconsistent and/or incomplete pieces of information. BD is a four-valued logic which is both paraconsistent and paracomplete. On the other hand, De and Omori while investigating what classical negation amounts to in a paracomplete and paraconsistent four-valued setting, proposed the expansion BD2 of the four valued Belnap-Dunn logic by a classical negation. In this paper, we reintroduce the logic BD2 by means of a primitive weak consistency operator ©\copyright. This approach allows us to state in a direct way that this is not only a Logic of Formal Inconsistency (LFI) but also a Logic of Formal Underterminedness (LFU). After presenting a natural Hilbert-style characterization of BD2 obtained by means of twist-structures semantics, we propose a first-order version of BD2 called QBD2, with semantics based on an appropriate notion of partial structures. We show that in QBD2, \exists and \forall are interdefinable in terms of the paracomplete and paraconsistent negation, and not by means of the the classical negation. Finally, a Hilbert-style calculus for QBD2 is presented, proving the corresponding and soundness and completeness theorems.

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@article{arxiv.2212.01677,
  title  = {On a four-valued logic of formal inconsistency and formal underterminedness},
  author = {Marcelo E. Coniglio and G. T. Gomez-Pereira and Martín Figallo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.01677},
  year   = {2022}
}

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29 pages