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Constant Domain Quantified Modal Logics without Boolean Negation

“Constant Domain Quantified Modal Logics without Boolean Negation,” Australasian Journal of Logic, 3 (2005), 45-62. Available online at the AJL.

The paper examines what its title says. Constant domain modal frames seem to be the natural semantics for quantified relevant logics and their cousins. Kit Fine has shown us that things are not that simple, as the natural proof theory is not complete for the natural semantics. In this paper I explore the somewhat simpler case of one-place modal operators. The natural proofs work, but there are a few surprises, such as the need to use intuitionistic implication and its dual, subtraction, in the completeness proof. This paper is dedicated to the memory of Richard Sylvan, who contributed so much to the study of the semantics of relevant logics and their neighbours.

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Author: Greg Restall
Status: Published in 2005

Local file: cdqml.pdf (243KB)

Subjects: modal logic models non-classical logic sequents

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Few persons care to study logic, because everybody conceives himself to be proficient enough in the art of reasoning already. But I observe that this satisfaction is limited to one’s own ratiocination, and does not extend to that of other men.
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