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We show that first-order logic can be translated into a very simple and weak logic, and thus set theory can be formalized in this weak logic. This weak logical system is equivalent to the equational theory of Boolean algebras with three…

Logic · Mathematics 2011-11-07 H. Andréka , I. Németi

We introduce a variant of free logic (i.e., a logic admitting terms with nonexistent referents) that accommodates truth-value gluts as well as gaps. Employing a suitable expansion of the Belnap-Dunn four-valued logic, we specify a…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-08-29 Libor Behounek , Martina Dankova , Antonin Dvorak

Within the possibilistic approach to uncertainty modeling, the paper presents a modal logical system to reason about qualitative (comparative) statements of the possibility (and necessity) of fuzzy propositions. We relate this qualitative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-02-28 Petr Hajek , Dagmar Harmancová , Francesc Esteva , Pere Garcia , Lluis Godo

Definite descriptions are expressions of the form "the unique $x$ satisfying property $C$," which allow reference to objects through their distinguishing characteristics. They play a crucial role in ontology and query languages, offering an…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Michał Sochański , Przemysław Andrzej Wałęga , Michał Zawidzki

We answer two open questions by (Gruber, Holzer, Kutrib, 2009) on the state-complexity of representing sub- or superword closures of context-free grammars (CFGs): (1) We prove a (tight) upper bound of $2^{\mathcal{O}(n)}$ on the size of…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2014-10-24 Georg Bachmeier , Michael Luttenberger , Maximilian Schlund

Transition systems are often used to describe the behaviour of software systems. If viewed as a graph then, at their most basic level, vertices correspond to the states of a program and each edge represents a transition between states via…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-03-20 Diana Costa

We study LFD, a base logic of functional dependence introduced by Baltag and van Benthem (2021) and its connections with the guarded fragment GF of first-order logic. Like other logics of dependence, the semantics of LFD uses teams: sets of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-06-14 Johan van Benthem , Balder ten Cate , Raoul Koudijs

In this work, we present a logical formalism for reasoning about quantum systems in finite dimension. Contrary to the usual approach in quantum logic, our formalism is based classical first-order logic, which allows us to use the tools of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-02-19 Olivier Brunet

We give sound and complete Hilbert-style axiomatizations for propositional dependence logic (PD), modal dependence logic (MDL), and extended modal dependence logic (EMDL) by extending existing axiomatizations for propositional logic and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-10-21 Katsuhiko Sano , Jonni Virtema

Description logics are knowledge representation languages that have been designed to strike a balance between expressivity and computational tractability. Many different description logics have been developed, and numerous computational…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2018-08-14 Ronald de Haan

This paper proposes the meeting of fuzzy logic with paraconsistency in a very precise and foundational way. Specifically, in this paper we introduce expansions of the fuzzy logic MTL by means of primitive operators for consistency and…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-15 Marcelo Coniglio , Francesc Esteva , Lluís Godo

We extend description logics (DLs) with non-monotonic reasoning features. We start by investigating a notion of defeasible subsumption in the spirit of defeasible conditionals as studied by Kraus, Lehmann and Magidor in the propositional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-04-17 Katarina Britz , Giovanni Casini , Thomas Meyer , Kody Moodley , Uli Sattler , Ivan Varzinczak

It is well-known that there exist infinitely-many inequivalent representations of the canonical (anti)-commutation relations of Quantum Field Theory (QFT). A way out, suggested by Algebraic QFT, is to instead define the quantum theory as…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-10-28 Suzanne Lanéry

Non-negative matrix factorization (NMF) is a dimensionality reduction technique which tends to produce a sparse representation of data. Commonly, the error between the actual and recreated matrices is used as an objective function, but this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-02-06 Steven Squires , Adam Prugel Bennett , Mahesan Niranjan

We propose a multi-agent epistemic logic capturing reasoning with degrees of plausibility that agents can assign to a given statement, with $1$ interpreted as "entirely plausible for the agent" and $0$ as "completely implausible" (i.e., the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-12-18 Marta Bílková , Thomas Ferguson , Daniil Kozhemiachenko

Recently, description logic LE-ALC was introduced for reasoning in the semantic environment of enriched formal contexts, and a polynomial-time tableaux algorithm was developed to check the consistency of knowledge bases with acyclic TBoxes.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-09 Yiwen Ding , Krishna Manoorkar

This paper presents a new system of logic, LF, that is intended to be used as the foundation of the formalization of science. That is, deductive validity according to LF is to be used as the criterion for assessing what follows from the…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Zachary Goodsell , Juhani Yli-Vakkuri

This paper considers two logics. The first one, $\mathbf{K}\mathsf{G}_\mathsf{inv}$, is an expansion of the G\"odel modal logic $\mathbf{K}\mathsf{G}$ with the involutive negation $\sim_\mathsf{i}$ defined as…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-30 Marta Bilkova , Thomas Ferguson , Daniil Kozhemiachenko

We introduce a notion of positive definiteness for functions $f\!:P\to\mathbb{R}$ defined on meet semilattices $(P,\preceq,\wedge)$ and prove several properties for these functions. In addition, we utilize the $LDL^{\rm T}$ decomposition of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2020-04-29 Vesa Kaarnioja , Pentti Haukkanen , Pauliina Ilmonen , Mika Mattila

This paper presents a sound, complete, and decidable analytic tableau system for the logic of evidence and truth \letf, introduced in Rodrigues, Bueno-Soler \& Carnielli (Synthese, DOI: 10.1007/s11229-020-02571-w, 2020). \letf\ is an…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-12-24 Walter Carnielli , Lorenzzo Frade , Abilio Rodrigues