Topological Completeness of First-Order Modal Logic

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Authors
  • S. Awodey
  • K. Kishida
Publication date 2012
Host editors
  • T. Bolander
  • T. Braüner
  • S. Ghilardi
  • L. Moss
Book title Advances in Modal Logic
Book subtitle AiML 9
ISBN
  • 9781848900684
Event Advances in Modal Logic 2012 (AiML 2012), Copenhagen, Denmark
Pages (from-to) 1-17
Publisher London: College Publications
Organisations
  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
  • Faculty of Science (FNWI)
Abstract
As McKinsey and Tarski [20] showed, the Stone representation theorem for Boolean algebras extends to algebras with operators to give topological semantics for (classical) propositional modal logic, in which the "necessity" operation is modeled by taking the interior of an arbitrary subset of a topological space. This topological interpretation was recently extended in a natural way to arbitrary theories of full first-order logic by Awodey and Kishida [3], using topological sheaves to interpret domains of quantification. This paper proves the system of full first-order S4 modal logic to be deductively complete with respect to such extended topological semantics. The techniques employed are related to recent work in topos theory, but are new to systems of modal logic. They are general enough to also apply to other modal systems.
Document type Conference contribution
Language English
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