Realizability semantics for quantified modal logic: Generalizing Flagg's 1985 construction

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Authors
  • B.G. Rin
  • S. Walsh
Publication date December 2016
Journal Review of Symbolic Logic
Volume | Issue number 9 | 4
Pages (from-to) 752-809
Number of pages 58
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

A semantics for quantified modal logic is presented that is based on Kleene's notion of realizability. This semantics generalizes Flagg's 1985 construction of a model of a modal version of Church's Thesis and first-order arithmetic. While the bulk of the paper is devoted to developing the details of the semantics, to illustrate the scope of this approach, we show that the construction produces (i) a model of a modal version of Church's Thesis and a variant of a modal set theory due to Goodman and Scedrov, (ii) a model of a modal version of Troelstra's generalized continuity principle together with a fragment of second-order arithmetic, and (iii) a model based on Scott's graph model (for the untyped lambda calculus) which witnesses the failure of the stability of nonidentity.

Document type Article
Note © Association for Symbolic Logic 2016
Language English
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https://doi.org/10.1017/S1755020316000095 (Final published version)
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