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This paper discusses the representation of ontologies in the first-order logical environment {\ttfamily FOLE}. An ontology defines the primitives with which to model the knowledge resources for a community of discourse. These primitives…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Robert E. Kent

We consider the problem of answering queries about formulas of first-order logic based on background knowledge partially represented explicitly as other formulas, and partially represented as examples independently drawn from a fixed…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-06-25 Vaishak Belle , Brendan Juba

The interpretability logic of a mathematical theory describes the structural behavior of interpretations over that theory. Different theories have different logics. This paper from 2011 revolves around the question what logic describes the…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Evan Goris , Joost J. Joosten

The Alexandrov topology affords a well-known semantics of modal necessity and possibility. This paper develops an Alexandrov topological semantics of intuitionistic propositional modal logic internally in any elementary topos. This is done…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Michael J. Lambert

First-order linear temporal logic (FOLTL) is a flexible and expressive formalism capable of naturally describing complex behaviors and properties. Although the logic is in general highly undecidable, the idea of using it as a specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-05-31 Luca Geatti , Alessandro Gianola , Nicola Gigante

It is known that Metric Temporal Logic (MTL) is strictly less expressive than the Monadic First-Order Logic of Order and Metric (FO[<, +1]) when interpreted over timed words; this remains true even when the time domain is bounded a priori.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Hsi-Ming Ho , Joël Ouaknine , James Worrell

Due to its expressiveness and unambiguous nature, First-Order Logic (FOL) is a powerful formalism for representing concepts expressed in natural language (NL). This is useful, e.g., for specifying and verifying desired system properties.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-11-18 Andrea Brunello , Luca Geatti , Michele Mignani , Angelo Montanari , Nicola Saccomanno

The integration of lexical semantics and pragmatics in the analysis of the meaning of natural lan- guage has prompted changes to the global framework derived from Montague. In those works, the original lexicon, in which words were assigned…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2013-09-05 Bruno Mery , Christian Retoré

Intensional computation derives concrete outputs from abstract function definitions; extensional computation defines functions through explicit input-output pairs. In formal semantics: intensional computation interprets expressions as…

Category Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-05 Daniel Quigley

We contribute to the refined understanding of the language-logic-algebra interplay in the context of first-order properties of countable words. We establish decidable algebraic characterizations of one variable fragment of FO as well as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-07-06 Bharat Adsul , Saptarshi Sarkar , A. V. Sreejith

Possibilistic logic, an extension of first-order logic, deals with uncertainty that can be estimated in terms of possibility and necessity measures. Syntactically, this means that a first-order formula is equipped with a possibility degree…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Bernhard Hollunder

Justification logics are special kinds of modal logics which provide a framework for reasoning about epistemic justifications. For this, they extend classical boolean propositional logic by a family of necessity-style modal operators "t:",…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Nicholas Pischke

First-order logic (FOL) has proved to be a versatile and expressive tool as the basis of abstract modeling languages. Used to verify complex systems with unbounded domains, such as heap-manipulating programs and distributed protocols, FOL,…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2024-12-02 Neta Elad , Sharon Shoham

Intensionality is a phenomenon that occurs in logic and computation. In the most general sense, a function is intensional if it operates at a level finer than (extensional) equality. This is a familiar setting for computer scientists, who…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-12-27 G. A. Kavvos

The present work aims to give a unity of logic via standard sequential, unpolarized games. Specifically, our vision is that there must be mathematically precise concepts of linear refinement and intuitionistic restriction of logic such that…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Norihiro Yamada

We construct a formal theory, which we call reflectica, whose language possesses the following properties of natural language: it is a self-reflecting language and an intensional language. By a self-reflecting language we understand an…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Mikhail Patrakeev

Proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) is the approach to meaning in logic based on 'proof' (as opposed to 'truth'). There are two major approaches to P-tS: proof-theoretic validity (P-tV) and base-extension semantics (B-eS). The former is a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

The first-order logical environment FOLE [5] provides a rigorous and principled approach to distributed interoperable first-order information systems. FOLE has been developed in two forms: a classification form and an interpretation form.…

Databases · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Robert E. Kent

In the framework of propositional {\L}ukasiewicz logic, a suitable notion of implicit definability, tailored to the intended real-valued semantics and referring to the elements of its domain, is introduced. Several variants of implicitly…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-02-26 Zuzana Haniková

Lawvere showed that generalised metric spaces are categories enriched over $[0, \infty]$, the quantale of the positive extended reals. The statement of enrichment is a quantitative analogue of being a preorder. Towards seeking a logic for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-02-14 Giorgio Bacci , Radu Mardare , Prakash Panangaden , Gordon Plotkin