English

Non-contingecy in a paraconsistent setting

Logic 2024-02-20 v1

Abstract

We study an extension of First Degree Entailment (FDE) by Dunn and Belnap with a non-contingency operator ϕ\blacktriangle\phi which is construed as "ϕ\phi has the same value in all accessible states" or "all sources give the same information on the truth value of ϕ\phi". We equip this logic dubbed KFDE\mathbf{K}^\blacktriangle_\mathbf{FDE} with frame semantics and show how the bi-valued models can be interpreted as interconnected networks of Belnapian databases with the \blacktriangle operator modelling search for inconsistencies in the provided information. We construct an analytic cut system for the logic and show its soundness and completeness. We prove that \blacktriangle is not definable via the necessity modality \Box of KFDE\mathbf{K_{FDE}}. Furthermore, we prove that in contrast to the classical non-contingency logic, reflexive, S4\mathbf{S4}, and S5\mathbf{S5} (among others) frames \emph{are definable}.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2402.11249,
  title  = {Non-contingecy in a paraconsistent setting},
  author = {Daniil Kozhemiachenko and Liubov Vashentseva},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.11249},
  year   = {2024}
}
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