Syntactic aspects of modal incompleteness theorems
Syntactic aspects of modal incompleteness theorems
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模态不完备性定理的句法方面
DOI:
10.1111/j.1755-2567.1979.tb00794.x
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2008
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J. Benthem
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J. Benthem
THIS PAPER is concerned with propositional modal logic. Notational conventions will be explained as the need for them arises. Modal formulas are constructed using proposition letters (p, q, r,...), Boolean operators (7: not,+: if... then..., A: and, v: or, c*: if and only if) and unary modal operators 0 (necessarily), 0 (possibly). It actually suffices to take 7,+ and 0 as primitives, using the well-known definability of the other operators. The minimal modal logic K has a set of propositional axioms complete (for propositional logic) with respect to the rules of detachment (modus ponens) and substitution. Moreover, it has the modal axiom U (p+ q)+(Op-+ Oq), as well as the modal rule of “necessitation”(to infer Ocp from cp).(Notice that, very often, K is axiomatized without using the rule of substitution, but with axiom schemata.) Deducibility in K may then be defined as follows. Z kKcp if a finite sequence of modal formulas exists with cp at its end, such that each formula in the sequence either belongs to C, or is an axiom of K, or follows from previous formulas by an application of some rule of inference.This notion of deducibility admits of a semantic characterization through the following concepts. A frame is an ordered couple (W, R) consisting of a set W (of so-called “worlds”) with a binary relation R on W (“accessibility”). Frames will be denoted by 8 (=(W, R)). Truth of modal formulas in frames is definable by the intermediary of a valuation V on such a frame 8 which assigns subsets of W to proposition letters. Using the well-known Kripke truth definition, V may be lifted to the set of all modal formulas in a canonical fashion. Now cp is true in 8 (“$ k cp”) if V (cp)= W for all valuations V on 8. The following notion of modal consequence then