Paraconsistent Reasoning via Quantified Boolean Formulas,I: Axiomatising Signed Systems
Abstract
Signed systems were introduced as a general, syntax-independent framework for paraconsistent reasoning, that is, non-trivialised reasoning from inconsistent information. In this paper, we show how the family of corresponding paraconsistent consequence relations can be axiomatised by means of quantified Boolean formulas. This approach has several benefits. First, it furnishes an axiomatic specification of paraconsistent reasoning within the framework of signed systems. Second, this axiomatisation allows us to identify upper bounds for the complexity of the different signed consequence relations. We strengthen these upper bounds by providing strict complexity results for the considered reasoning tasks. Finally, we obtain an implementation of different forms of paraconsistent reasoning by appeal to the existing system QUIP.
Cite
@article{arxiv.cs/0207084,
title = {Paraconsistent Reasoning via Quantified Boolean Formulas,I: Axiomatising Signed Systems},
author = {Philippe Besnard and Torsten Schaub and Hans Tompits and Stefan Woltran},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:cs/0207084},
year = {2007}
}
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15 pages. Originally published in proc. PCL 2002, a FLoC workshop; eds. Hendrik Decker, Dina Goldin, Jorgen Villadsen, Toshiharu Waragai (http://floc02.diku.dk/PCL/)