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Deep and shallow embeddings of non-classical logics in classical higher-order logic have been explored, implemented, and used in various reasoning tools in recent years. This paper presents a method for the simultaneous deployment of deep…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Christoph Benzmüller

The one-variable fragment of any first-order logic may be considered as a modal logic, where the universal and existential quantifiers are replaced by a box and diamond modality, respectively. In several cases, axiomatizations of algebraic…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Petr Cintula , George Metcalfe , Naomi Tokuda

Compositionality proofs in higher-order languages are notoriously involved, and general semantic frameworks guaranteeing compositionality are hard to come by. In particular, Turi and Plotkin's bialgebraic abstract GSOS framework, which…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Sergey Goncharov , Stefan Milius , Lutz Schröder , Stelios Tsampas , Henning Urbat

Logical formalisms for reasoning about relations between spatial regions play a fundamental role in geographical information systems, spatial and constraint databases, and spatial reasoning in AI. In analogy with Halpern and Shoham's modal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-01-11 Carsten Lutz , Frank Wolter

Non-classical generalizations of classical modal logic have been developed in the contexts of constructive mathematics and natural language semantics. In this paper, we discuss a general approach to the semantics of non-classical modal…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-25 Wesley H. Holliday

Both syntax-phonology and syntax-semantics interfaces in Higher Order Grammar (HOG) are expressed as axiomatic theories in higher-order logic (HOL), i.e. a language is defined entirely in terms of provability in the single logical system.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2009-10-06 Victor Gluzberg

We develop a proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) for second-order logic (S-oL), providing an inferentialist alternative to both full and Henkin model-theoretic interpretations. Our approach is grounded in base-extension semantics (B-eS), a…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

Non-normal modal logics, interpreted on neighbourhood models which generalise the usual relational semantics, have found application in several areas, such as epistemic, deontic, and coalitional reasoning. We present here preliminary…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-07-04 Tiziano Dalmonte , Andrea Mazzullo , Ana Ozaki

Higher-order logic HOL offers a very simple syntax and semantics for representing and reasoning about typed data structures. But its type system lacks advanced features where types may depend on terms. Dependent type theory offers such a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-05-25 Colin Rothgang , Florian Rabe , Christoph Benzmüller

This paper deals with topos-theoretic truth-value valuations of quantum propositions. Concretely, a mathematical framework of a specific type of modal approach is extended to the topos theory, and further, structures of the obtained…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2008-11-26 Kunji Nakayama

In traditional semantics for classical logic and its extensions, such as modal logic, propositions are interpreted as subsets of a set, as in discrete duality, or as clopen sets of a Stone space, as in topological duality. A point in such a…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-05-14 Wesley H. Holliday

We present three examples of \textit{multi-topological} semantics for intuitionistic modal logic with one modal operator $\Box$ (which behaves in some sense like necessity). We show that it is possible to treat neighborhood models,…

Logic · Mathematics 2019-03-19 Tomasz Witczak

A modal logic is \emph{non-iterative} if it can be defined by axioms that do not nest modal operators, and \emph{rank-1} if additionally all propositional variables in axioms are in scope of a modal operator. It is known that every…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-08-04 Jonas Forster , Lutz Schröder

We explore various semantic understandings of dual intuitionistic logic by exploring the relationship between co-Heyting algebras and topological spaces. First, we discuss the relevant ideas in the setting of Heyting algebras and…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Safal Raman Aryal

The Kripke semantics of classical propositional normal modal logic is made algebraic via an embedding of Kripke structures into the larger class of pointed stably supported quantales. This algebraic semantics subsumes the traditional…

Logic · Mathematics 2009-11-13 Sérgio Marcelino , Pedro Resende

We study elementary modal logics, i.e. modal logic considered over first-order definable classes of frames. The classical semantics of modal logic allows infinite structures, but often practical applications require to restrict our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Jakub Michaliszyn , Jan Otop , Piotr Witkowski

Logical frameworks based on intuitionistic or linear logics with higher-type quantification have been successfully used to give high-level, modular, and formal specifications of many important judgments in the area of programming languages…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Raymond C. McDowell , Dale A. Miller

We introduce syntactic modal operator $\BOX$ for \textit{being a thesis} into first-order logic. This logic is a modern realization of R. Carnap's old ideas on modality, as logical necessity (J. Symb. Logic, 1946) \cite{Ca46}. We place it…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-26 Marcin Łyczak

A semantical embedding of input/output logic in classical higher-order logic is presented. This embedding enables the mechanisation and automation of reasoning tasks in input/output logic with off-the-shelf higher-order theorem provers and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-04-20 Christoph Benzmüller , Xavier Parent

We describe a mathematical structure that can give extensional denotational semantics to higher-order probabilistic programs. It is not limited to discrete probabilities, and it is compatible with integration in a way the models that have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-14 Guillaume Geoffroy