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Several different proof translations exist between classical and intuitionistic logic (negative translations), and intuitionistic and linear logic (Girard translations). Our aims in this paper are (1) to consider extensions of…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Gilda Ferreira , Paulo Oliva , Clarence Lewis Protin

Mechanistic interpretability aims to explain neural model behaviour by reverse-engineering learned computational structure into human-understandable components. Without a formal framework, however, mechanistic explanations cannot be…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Ward Gauderis , Thomas Dooms , Steven T. Holmer , Kola Ayonrinde , Geraint A. Wiggins

Almost from the inception of Hilbert's program, foundational and structural efforts in proof theory have been directed towards the goal of clarifying the computational content of modern mathematical methods. This essay surveys various…

Logic · Mathematics 2010-06-17 Jeremy Avigad

We use G\"odel's Dialectica interpretation to analyse Nash-Williams' elegant but non-constructive "minimal bad sequence" proof of Higman's Lemma. The result is a concise constructive proof of the lemma (for arbitrary decidable…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2012-10-12 Thomas Powell

Interactive theorem provers based on dependent type theory have the flexibility to support both constructive and classical reasoning. Constructive reasoning is supported natively by dependent type theory and classical reasoning is typically…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-10-18 Russell O'Connor

Lindstr\"om's Theorem characterizes first order logic as the maximal logic satisfying the Compactness Theorem and the Downward L\"owenheim-Skolem Theorem. If we do not assume that logics are closed under negation, there is an obvious…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-17 Saharon Shelah , Jouko Väänänen

For a discrete-negative-time discrete-space SDE, which admits no strong solution in the classical sense, a weak solution is constructed that is a (necessarily nonmeasurable) non-anticipative function of the driving i.i.d. noise. The result…

Probability · Mathematics 2021-04-23 Matija Vidmar

We give a proof-theoretic as well as a semantic characterization of a logic in the signature with conjunction, disjunction, negation, and the universal and existential quantifiers that we suggest has a certain fundamental status. We present…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-06 Wesley H. Holliday

Any intermediate propositional logic (i.e., a logic including intuitionistic logic and contained in classical logic) can be extended to a calculus with epsilon- and tau-operators and critical formulas. For classical logic, this results in…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-02 Matthias Baaz , Richard Zach

We establish a precise relation between M, a subsystem of the formal axiomatic system of intuitionistic analysis FIM of S. C. Kleene, and elementary analysis EL of A. S. Troelstra, two weak formal systems of two-sorted intuitionistic…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-08-02 Garyfallia Vafeiadou

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

Extensional higher-order logic programming has been introduced as a generalization of classical logic programming. An important characteristic of this paradigm is that it preserves all the well-known properties of traditional logic…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2020-02-19 Angelos Charalambidis , Zoltán Ésik , Panos Rondogiannis

The sequential form of a statement $\forall\xi(B(\xi) \rightarrow \exists\zeta A(\xi,\zeta))$ is the statement $\forall\xi(\forall n B(\xi_n) \rightarrow \exists\zeta \forall n A(\xi_n,\zeta_n))$. There are many classically true statements…

Logic · Mathematics 2016-02-10 François G. Dorais

Intuitionistic grammar logics fuse constructive and multi-modal reasoning while permitting the use of converse modalities, serving as a generalization of standard intuitionistic modal logics. In this paper, we provide definitions of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tim S. Lyon

Intuitionistic logic extended with decidable propositional atoms combines classical properties in its propositional part and intuitionistic properties for derivable formulas not containing propositional symbols. Sequent calculus is used as…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Sakharov

Non-classical negations may fail to be contradictory-forming operators in more than one way, and they often fail also to respect fundamental meta-logical properties such as the replacement property. Such drawbacks are witnessed by intricate…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-26 Ori Lahav , João Marcos , Yoni Zohar

We consider a philosophical question that is implicit in Selmer Bringsjord's paper, "The narrational case against Church's Thesis": If, as Mendelson argues, the classically accepted definitions of foundational concepts such as "partial…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bhupinder Singh Anand

We introduce the two substructural propositional logics KL, KL+, which use disjunction, fusion and a unary, (quasi-)exponential connective. For both we prove strong completeness with respect to the interpretation in Kleene algebras and a…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Christian Wurm

We discuss a new approach to functional interpretations based on uniform quantification and relativization. The uniform quantification in the background permits a more penetrating analysis of principles related to collection and…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Fernando Ferreira , Paulo Oliva

In mathematical logic there are two seemingly distinct kinds of principles called "reflection principles." Semantic reflection principles assert that if a formula holds in the whole universe, then it holds in a set-sized model. Syntactic…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-16 Fedor Pakhomov , James Walsh