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The superintuitionistic predicate logic of finite Kripke frames is not recursively axiomatizable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Dmitrij Skvortsov*
Affiliation:
All-Russian Institute of Scientific and Technical Information, Molodogvardejskaja 22, Korp. 3, KV. 29, 121351, Moscow, Russia, E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We prove that an intermediate predicate logic characterized by a class of finite partially ordered sets is recursively axiomatizable iff it is “finite”, i.e., iff it is characterized by a single finite partially ordered set. Therefore, the predicate logic LFin of the class of all predicate Kripke frames with finitely many possible worlds is not recursively axiomatizable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2005

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