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Constructive interpolation in hybrid logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Patrick Blackburn  and
Maarten Marx
Patrick Blackburn
Affiliation:
Inria Lorraine, 615 Rue du Jardin Botanique, 54602 Villers les Nancy Cedex, France, E-mail: [email protected]
Maarten Marx
Affiliation:
Universiteit van Amsterdam, ILLC, Nieuwe Achtergracht 166, 1018 WV Amsterdam, The Netherlands, E-mail: [email protected]
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Abstract

Craig's interpolation lemma (if φ → ψ is valid, then φ → θ and θ → ψ are valid, for θ a formula constructed using only primitive symbols which occur both in φ and ψ) fails for many propositional and first order modal logics. The interpolation property is often regarded as a sign of well-matched syntax and semantics. Hybrid logicians claim that modal logic is missing important syntactic machinery, namely tools for referring to worlds, and that adding such machinery solves many technical problems. The paper presents strong evidence for this claim by defining interpolation algorithms for both propositional and first order hybrid logic. These algorithms produce interpolants for the hybrid logic of every elementary class of frames satisfying the property that a frame is in the class if and only if all its point-generated subframes are in the class. In addition, on the class of all frames, the basic algorithm is conservative: on purely modal input it computes interpolants in which the hybrid syntactic machinery does not occur.

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2003 , pp. 463 - 480
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2003

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