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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

Classical logic predicts that everything (thus nothing useful at all) follows from inconsistency. A paraconsistent logic is a logic where an inconsistency does not lead to such an explosion, and since in practice consistency is difficult to…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Jørgen Villadsen

Tarski gave a general semantics for deductive reasoning: a formula a may be deduced from a set A of formulas iff a holds in all models in which each of the elements of A holds. A more liberal semantics has been considered: a formula a may…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Daniel Lehmann

We look at non-classical negations and their corresponding adjustment connectives from a modal viewpoint, over complete distributive lattices, and apply a very general mechanism in order to offer adequate analytic proof systems to logics…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-06-24 Ori Lahav , João Marcos , Yoni Zohar

This work is divided between two main areas: in the theory of multialgebras, we focus mostly on a new definition of what a freely generated object should be in their category, and on how this category is equivalent to another with partially…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-23 Guilherme Vicentin de Toledo

Logical paradoxes and inconsistent information pose deep challenges in epistemology and the philosophy of logic. Classical systems typically handle contradictions only through external checks or by altering the logical framework, as in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-12-29 Nikolaos Cheimarios , Spyridoula Cheimariou

The consensus problem, briefly stated, consists of having processes in an asynchronous distributed system agree on a value. It is widely known that the consensus problem does not have a deterministic solution that ensures both termination…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Gabriel Rocha

We propose a general framework for inconsistency-tolerant query answering within existential rule setting. This framework unifies the main semantics proposed by the state of art and introduces new ones based on cardinality and majority…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2016-02-19 Jean Francois Baget , Salem Benferhat , Zied Bouraoui , Madalina Croitoru , Marie-Laure Mugnier , Odile Papini , Swan Rocher , Karim Tabia

We review the notion of (finitary) filter pair as a tool for creating and analyzing logics. A filter pair can be seen as a presentation of a logic, given by presenting its lattice of theories as the image of a lattice homomorphism, with…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-03 Peter Arndt , Hugo Luiz Mariano , Darllan Conceição Pinto

Bilateralists hold that the meanings of the connectives are determined by rules of inference for their use in deductive reasoning with asserted and denied formulas. This paper presents two bilateral connectives comparable to Prior's tonk,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Nils Kürbis

While neural models show remarkable accuracy on individual predictions, their internal beliefs can be inconsistent across examples. In this paper, we formalize such inconsistency as a generalization of prediction error. We propose a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-09-16 Tao Li , Vivek Gupta , Maitrey Mehta , Vivek Srikumar

A relational database is inconsistent if it does not satisfy a given set of integrity constraints. Nevertheless, it is likely that most of the data in it is consistent with the constraints. In this paper we apply logic programming based on…

Databases · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marcelo Arenas , Leopoldo Bertossi , Jan Chomicki

By considering rational agents, we focus on the problem of selecting goals out of a set of incompatible ones. We consider three forms of incompatibility introduced by Castelfranchi and Paglieri, namely the terminal, the instrumental (or…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-09-21 Mariela Morveli-Espinoza , Juan Carlos Nieves , Ayslan Trevizan Possebom , Cesar Augusto Tacla

We explore the problem of explaining observations starting from a classically inconsistent theory by adopting a paraconsistent framework. We consider two expansions of the well-known Belnap--Dunn paraconsistent four-valued logic…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Meghyn Bienvenu , Katsumi Inoue , Daniil Kozhemiachenko

Justification theory is an abstract unifying formalism that captures semantics of various non-monotonic logics. One intriguing problem that has received significant attention is the consistency problem: under which conditions are…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-08-08 Simon Marynissen , Bart Bogaerts

In order to develop efficient tools for automated reasoning with inconsistency (theorem provers), eventually making Logics of Formal inconsistency (LFI) a more appealing formalism for reasoning under uncertainty, it is important to develop…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Victoria Arce Pistone , Martín Figallo

Program equivalence is the fulcrum for reasoning about and proving properties of programs. For noninterference, for example, program equivalence up to the secrecy level of an observer is shown. A powerful enabler for such proofs are logical…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2026-04-15 Stephanie Balzer , Farzaneh Derakhshan , Robert Harper , Yue Yao

Although conventional logical systems based on logical calculi have been successfully used in mathematics and beyond, they have definite limitations that restrict their application in many cases. For instance, the principal condition for…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2011-04-11 Mark Burgin , Kees , de Vey Mestdagh

We introduce incongruent normal form (INF), a structural representation for self-referential semantic sentences. An INF replaces a self-referential sentence with a finite family of non-self-referential sentences that are individually…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-03-26 Shalender Singh , Vishnu Priya Singh Parmar

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