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Kripke Semantics for Intuitionistic Łukasiewicz Logic

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This paper proposes a generalization of the Kripke semantics of intuitionistic logic IL appropriate for intuitionistic Łukasiewicz logic IŁL —a logic in the intersection between IL and (classical) Łukasiewicz logic. This generalised Kripke semantics is based on the poset sum construction, used in Bova and Montagna (Theoret Comput Sci 410(12):1143–1158, 2009). to show the decidability (and PSPACE completeness) of the quasiequational theory of commutative, integral and bounded GBL algebras. The main idea is that \(w \Vdash \psi \)—which for ILis a relation between worlds w and formulas \(\psi \), and can be seen as a function taking values in the booleans \((w \Vdash \psi ) \in {{\mathbb {B}}}\)—becomes a function taking values in the unit interval \((w \Vdash \psi ) \in [0,1]\). An appropriate monotonicity restriction (which we call sloping functions) needs to be put on such functions in order to ensure soundness and completeness of the semantics.

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Acknowledgements

We would like to thank Rob Arthan for several interesting and useful discussions about Łukasiewicz logic and Kripke semantics, the anonymous referee various helpful comments and suggestions, and for pointing out that in an earlier version of this paper we were not careful enough in distinguishing our logic IŁL from the logic \({\mathbf{GBL}}_{\text {ewf}}\), and Reuben Rowe for a careful proofreading and several comments. Edmund Robinson acknowledges the support of UK EPRSC Research Grant EP/R006865/1: Interface Reasoning for Interacting Systems (IRIS).

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Lewis-Smith, A., Oliva, P. & Robinson, E. Kripke Semantics for Intuitionistic Łukasiewicz Logic. Stud Logica 109, 313–339 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-020-09908-z

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Keywords

  • Łukasiewicz logic
  • Intuitionistic Łukasiewicz logic
  • Kripke semantics
  • GBL algebras