Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-fscjk Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-23T23:21:43.721Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

On a Propositional Calculus Whose Decision Problem is Recursively Unsolvable1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Akira Nakamura*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University
Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

Core share and HTML view are not available for this content. However, as you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button.

The purpose of this paper is to present a propositional calculus whose decision problem is recursively unsolvable. The paper is based on the following ideas:

  • (1) Using Löwenheim-Skolem’s Theorem and Surányi’s Reduction Theorem, we will construct an infinitely many-valued propositional calculus corresponding to the first-order predicate calculus.

  • (2) It is well known that the decision problem of the first-order predicate calculus is recursively unsolvable.

  • (3) Thus it will be shown that the decision problem of the infinitely many-valued propositional calculus is recursively unsolvable.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Editorial Board of Nagoya Mathematical Journal 1970

References

page 145 note 2) In the first-order predicate calculus, the semantical decision problem is equivalent to the syntactical one by the completeness theorem.

page 146 note 1) Using those logical operations, we define

page 147 note 1) Of course, h(F(y)) → ◊ Y F, h(F(z)) → ◊ZF, h(G(y, z)) → ◊(YG1 Λ ZG2), ….