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Pointwise intersection in neighbourhood modal logic

Logic 2018-04-30 v1

Abstract

We study the logic of neighbourhood models with pointwise intersection, as a means to characterize multi-modal logics. Pointwise intersection takes us from a set of neighbourhood sets Ni\mathcal{N}_i (one for each member ii of a set GG, used to interpret the modality i\square_i) to a new neighbourhood set NG\mathcal{N}_G, which in turn allows us to interpret the operator G\square_G. Here, XX is in the neighbourhood for GG if and only if XX equals the intersection of some Y={YiiG}\mathcal{Y} = \{Y_i \mid i\in G\}. We show that the notion of pointwise intersection has various applications in epistemic and doxastic logic, deontic logic, coalition logic, and evidence logic. We then establish sound and strongly complete axiomatizations for the weakest logic characterized by pointwise intersection and for a number of variants, using a new and generally applicable technique for canonical model construction.

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@article{arxiv.1804.10285,
  title  = {Pointwise intersection in neighbourhood modal logic},
  author = {Frederik Van De Putte and Dominik Klein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10285},
  year   = {2018}
}

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Submitted to Advances in Modal Logic 2018

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