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BELNAP–DUNN MODAL LOGICS: TRUTH CONSTANTS VS. TRUTH VALUES

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 February 2019

SERGEI P. ODINTSOV*
Affiliation:
Sobolev Institute of Mathematics
STANISLAV O. SPERANSKI*
Affiliation:
St. Petersburg State University
*
*SOBOLEV INSTITUTE OF MATHEMATICS 4 KOPTYUG AVENUE 630090 NOVOSIBIRSK, RUSSIA E-mail: [email protected]
ST. PETERSBURG STATE UNIVERSITY 29B LINE 14TH, VASILYEVSKY ISLAND 199178 SAINT PETERSBURG, RUSSIA E-mail: [email protected]

Abstract

We shall be concerned with the modal logic BK—which is based on the Belnap–Dunn four-valued matrix, and can be viewed as being obtained from the least normal modal logic K by adding ‘strong negation’. Though all four values ‘truth’, ‘falsity’, ‘neither’ and ‘both’ are employed in its Kripke semantics, only the first two are expressible as terms. We show that expanding the original language of BK to include constants for ‘neither’ or/and ‘both’ leads to quite unexpected results. To be more precise, adding one of these constants has the effect of eliminating the respective value at the level of BK-extensions. In particular, if one adds both of these, then the corresponding lattice of extensions turns out to be isomorphic to that of ordinary normal modal logics.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2019 

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