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In proof-theoretic semantics, meaning is based on inference. It may seen as the mathematical expression of the inferentialist interpretation of logic. Much recent work has focused on base-extension semantics, in which the validity of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-02-13 Timo Eckhardt , David J. Pym

In 1986, Flagg and Friedman \cite{ff} gave an elegant alternative proof of the faithfulness of G\"{o}del (or Rasiowa-Sikorski) translation $(\cdot)^\Box$ of Heyting arithmetic $\bf HA$ to Shapiro's epistemic arithmetic $\bf EA$. In \S 2, we…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Takao Inoué

The standard approach to logic in the literature in philosophy and mathematics, which has also been adopted in computer science, is to define a language (the syntax), an appropriate class of models together with an interpretation of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Joseph Y. Halpern

We introduce a novel semantics for a multi-agent epistemic operator of knowing how, based on an indistinguishability relation between plans. Our proposal is, arguably, closer to the standard presentation of knowing that modalities in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-04-04 Carlos Areces , Raul Fervari , Andrés R. Saravia , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada

The logic FO(ID) uses ideas from the field of logic programming to extend first order logic with non-monotone inductive definitions. Such logic formally extends logic programming, abductive logic programming and datalog, and thus formalizes…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-07-12 Ping Hou , Johan Wittocx , Marc Denecker

Quantified propositional intuitionistic logic is obtained from propositional intuitionistic logic by adding quantifiers \forall p, \exists p over propositions. In the context of Kripke semantics, a proposition is a subset of the worlds in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Richard Zach

This paper aims to give an epistemic interpretation to the tensor disjunction in dependence logic, through a rather surprising connection to the so-called weak disjunction in Medvedev's early work on intermediate logic under the…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-03-29 Haoyu Wang , Yanjing Wang , Yunsong Wang

Epistemic logic has become a major field of philosophical logic ever since the groundbreaking work by Hintikka (1962). Despite its various successful applications in theoretical computer science, AI, and game theory, the technical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-11-24 Yanjing Wang

Proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) is the paradigm of semantics in which meaning in logic is based on proof (as opposed to truth). A particular instance of P-tS for intuitionistic propositional logic (IPL) is its base-extension semantics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

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

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

We introduce a modal logic FIL for Feferman interpretability. In this logic both the provability modality and the interpretability modality can come with a label. This label indicates that in the arithmetical interpretation the axiom set of…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-27 Joost J. Joosten , Luka Mikec , Albert Visser

Different theorem provers tend to produce proof objects in different formats and this is especially the case for modal logics, where several deductive formalisms (and provers based on them) have been presented. This work falls within the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-09-15 Tomer Libal , Marco Volpe

In this paper we provide two new semantics for proofs in the constructive modal logics CK and CD. The first semantics is given by extending the syntax of combinatorial proofs for propositional intuitionistic logic, in which proofs are…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Matteo Acclavio , Davide Catta , Lutz Straßburger

We define a new type of proof formalism for multi-agent modal logics with S5-type modalities. This novel formalism combines the features of hypersequents to represent S5 modalities with nested sequents to represent the T-like modality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Marta Bílková , Wesley Fussner , Roman Kuznets

We explore the theory of illfounded and cyclic proofs for the propositional modal $\mu$-calculus. A fine analysis of provability for classical and intuitionistic modal logic provides a novel bridge between finitary, cyclic and illfounded…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Bahareh Afshari , Graham E. Leigh , Guillermo Menèndez Turata

This paper proposes an approach to information-based logics using many-logic modal structures (MLMS). These structures can express accessibility relations between worlds with different underlying logics by anchoring them to a base lattice,…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Manuel Martins , Abílio Rodrigues , Marcelo Coniglio , Alfredo Freire

A model of knowledge representation is described in which propositional facts and the relationships among them can be supported by other facts. The set of knowledge which can be supported is called the set of cognitive units, each having…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-04-12 A. Julian Craddock , Roger A. Browse

This article presents a formalism inspired by Dennett's notion of the intentional stance. Whereas Dennett's treatment of these concepts is informal, we aim to provide a more formal analogue. We introduce a framework based on stochastic…

Optimization and Control · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Simon McGregor , timorl , Nathaniel Virgo

We observe some puzzling linguistic data concerning ordinary knowledge ascriptions that embed an epistemic (im)possibility claim. We conclude that it is untenable to jointly endorse both classical logic and a pair of intuitively attractive…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Peter Hawke