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This paper introduces modal independence logic MIL, a modal logic that can explicitly talk about independence among propositional variables. Formulas of MIL are not evaluated in worlds but in sets of worlds, so called teams. In this vein,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-02 Juha Kontinen , Julian-Steffen Müller , Henning Schnoor , Heribert Vollmer

Motivated by questions like: which spatial structures may be characterized by means of modal logic, what is the logic of space, how to encode in modal logic different geometric relations, topological logic provides a framework for studying…

Logic · Mathematics 2014-01-07 Tarek Sayed Ahmed

One advantage of paraconsistent logic is that it can deal with inconsistencies without making the system trivial. However, unlike classical propositional calculus, its deductive system is limited, and the meaning of paraconsistent negation…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-10-14 Oscar Ramírez

The first-order theory of MALL (multiplicative, additive linear logic) over only equalities is an interesting but weak logic since it cannot capture unbounded (infinite) behavior. Instead of accounting for unbounded behavior via the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-12-02 David Baelde

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

On relational structures and on polymodal logics, we describe operations which preserve local tabularity. This provides new sufficient semantic and axiomatic conditions for local tabularity of a modal logic. The main results are the…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-07-16 Ilya B. Shapirovsky

Modal logics allow reasoning about various modes of truth: for example, what it means for something to be possibly true, or to know that something is true as opposed to merely believing it. This report describes embeddings of propositional…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2022-05-16 John Rushby

We start a systematic investigation of the size of Craig interpolants, uniform interpolants, and strongest implicates for (quasi-)normal modal logics. Our main upper bound states that for tabular modal logics, the computation of strongest…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-15 Balder ten Cate , Louwe Kuijer , Frank Wolter

We show that over the class of linear orders with additional binary relations satisfying some monotonicity conditions, monadic first-order logic has the three-variable property. This generalizes (and gives a new proof of) several known…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-04-02 Marie Fortin

The continuous modal mu-calculus is a fragment of the modal mu-calculus, where the application of fixpoint operators is restricted to formulas whose functional interpretation is Scott-continuous, rather than merely monotone. By…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-09-20 Jan Rooduijn , Yde Venema

LP$^{\supset,\mathsf{F}}$ is a three-valued paraconsistent propositional logic which is essentially the same as J3. It has most properties that have been proposed as desirable properties of a reasonable paraconsistent propositional logic.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-03-08 C. A. Middelburg

We study the positive logic FO+ on finite words, and its fragments, pursuing and refining the work initiated in [Kuperberg 2023]. First, we transpose notorious logic equivalences into positive first-order logic: FO+ is equivalent to LTL+ ,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Denis Kuperberg , Quentin Moreau

Provability logics are modal or polymodal systems designed for modeling the behavior of G\"odel's provability predicate in arithmetical theories and its natural extensions. If \Lambda is any ordinal, the G\"odel-L\"ob calculus GLP(\Lambda)…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-07-05 David Fernández-Duque

We provide a general and syntactically-defined family of sequent calculi, called \emph{semi-analytic}, to formalize the informal notion of a "nice" sequent calculus. We show that any sufficiently strong (multimodal) substructural logic with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-09-04 Amirhossein Akbar Tabatabai , Raheleh Jalali

This article presents modal versions of resource-conscious logics. We concentrate on extensions of variants of Linear Logic with one minimal non-normal modality. In earlier work, where we investigated agency in multi-agent systems, we have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-09-07 Daniele Porello , Nicolas Troquard

We present a novel linear $\lambda$-calculus for Classical Multiplicative Exponential Linear Logic (\MELL) along the lines of the propositions-as-types paradigm. Starting from the standard term assignment for Intuitionistic Multiplicative…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-02-04 Pablo Barenbaum , Eduardo Bonelli , Leopoldo Lerena

We give definitions of the properties OP, IP, $k$-TP, TP$_1$, $k$-TP$_2$, SOP$_1$, SOP$_2$ and SOP$_3$ in positive logic, and prove various implications and equivalences between them. We also provide a characterisation of stability in…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-11 Anna Dmitrieva , Francesco Gallinaro , Mark Kamsma

We study FO+, a fragment of first-order logic on finite words, where monadic predicates can only appear positively. We show that there is a FO-definable language that is monotone in monadic predicates but not definable in FO+. This provides…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Denis Kuperberg

This paper considers KLM-style preferential non-monotonic reasoning in the setting of propositional team semantics. We show that team-based propositional logics naturally give rise to cumulative non-monotonic entailment relations. Motivated…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-05-14 Kai Sauerwald , Juha Kontinen

Game comonads provide categorical semantics for comparison games in Finite Model Theory, thus providing an abstract characterisation of logical equivalence for a wide range of logics, each one captured through a specific choice of comonad.…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Santiago Figueira , Gabriel Goren-Roig