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This work is the first exploration of proof-theoretic semantics for a substructural logic. It focuses on the base-extension semantics (B-eS) for intuitionistic multiplicative linear logic (IMLL). The starting point is a review of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu , David J. Pym

The proof theory and semantics of intuitionistic modal logics have been studied by Simpson in terms of Prawitz-style labelled natural deduction systems and Kripke models. An alternative to model-theoretic semantics is provided by…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-10 Yll Buzoku , David. J. Pym

I deal with two approaches to proof-theoretic semantics: one based on argument structures and justifications, which I call reducibility semantics, and one based on consequence among (sets of) formulas over atomic bases, called base…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona

I explore the relationships between Prawitz's approach to non-monotonic proof-theoretic validity, which I call reducibility semantics, and some later proof-theoretic approaches, which I call standard base semantics and Sandqvist's base…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-23 Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona

We define base-extension semantics (Bes) using atomic systems based on sequent calculus rather than natural deduction. While traditional Bes aligns naturally with intuitionistic logic due to its constructive foundations, we show that…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-07-15 Victor Barroso-Nascimento , Ekaterina Piotrovskaya , Elaine Pimentel

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

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

This is a short paper about the relationship between logic and computation. More specifically, it is about a relationship between the completeness proof for intuitionistic propositional logic within the form of proof-theoretic semantics…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-07 Tao Gu , David Pym , Eike Ritter , Edmund Robinson

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

Sandqvist's base-extension semantics for intuitionistic propositional logic defines a support relation parametrised by atomic bases, with validity identified as support in every base. Sandqvist's completeness theorem answers the global…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Alexander V. Gheorghiu

We present a general relational semantics framework which, by varying the axiomatization and components of the relational structures, provides a uniform semantics for sentential logics, classical and non-classical alike. The approach we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-11-25 Chrysafis Hartonas

Proof-theoretic semantics, and base-extension semantics in particular, can be seen as a logical realization of inferentialism, in which the meaning of expressions is understood through their use. We present a base-extension semantics for…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Timo Eckhardt , David J. Pym

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

Sandqvist gave a proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) for classical logic (CL) that explicates the meaning of the connectives without assuming bivalance. Later, he gave a semantics for intuitionistic propositional logic (IPL). While soundness…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Alexander V. Gheorghiu

The field of proof-theoretic semantics (P-tS) offers an alternative approach to meaning in logic that is based on inference and argument (rather than truth in a model). It has been successfully developed for various logics; in particular,…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-03-10 Alexander V. Gheorghiu , Yll Buzoku

The logic of bunched implications (BI) can be seen as the free combination of intuitionistic propositional logic (IPL) and intuitionistic multiplicative linear logic (IMLL). We present here a base-extension semantics (B-eS) for BI in the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-11-12 Tao Gu , Alexander V. Gheorghiu , David J. Pym

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

In proof-theoretic semantics, model-theoretic validity is replaced by proof-theoretic validity. Validity of formulae is defined inductively from a base giving the validity of atoms using inductive clauses derived from proof-theoretic rules.…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-02-02 David Pym , Eike Ritter , Edmund Robinson

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 develop a second-order extension of intuitionistic modal logic, allowing quantification over propositions, both syntactically and semantically. A key feature of second-order logic is its capacity to define positive connectives from the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-09 Justus Becker , Anupam Das , Sonia Marin , Paaras Padhiar
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