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Main Author: Hartonas, Chrysafis
Format: Preprint
Published: 2021
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11597
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author Hartonas, Chrysafis
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contents This article contributes in that it clarifies and indeed completes an approach (initiated by Dunn and this author several years ago and again pursued by the present author over the last three years or so) to the relational semantics of logics that may lack distribution (Dunn's non-distributive gaggles). The approach uses sorted frames with an incidence relation on sorts (polarities), equipped with additional sorted relations, but, in the spirit of Occam's razor principle, it drops the extra assumptions made in the generalized Kripke frames approach, initiated by Gehrke, that the frames be separated and reduced (RS-frames). We show in this article that, despite rejecting the additional frame restrictions, all the main ideas and results of the RS-frames approach relating to the semantics of non-distributive logics are captured in this simpler framework. This contributes in unifying the research field, and, in an important sense, it complements and completes Dunn's gaggle theory project for the particular case of logics that may drop distribution.
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spellingShingle Reconciliation of Approaches to the Semantics of Logics without Distribution
Hartonas, Chrysafis
Logic
This article contributes in that it clarifies and indeed completes an approach (initiated by Dunn and this author several years ago and again pursued by the present author over the last three years or so) to the relational semantics of logics that may lack distribution (Dunn's non-distributive gaggles). The approach uses sorted frames with an incidence relation on sorts (polarities), equipped with additional sorted relations, but, in the spirit of Occam's razor principle, it drops the extra assumptions made in the generalized Kripke frames approach, initiated by Gehrke, that the frames be separated and reduced (RS-frames). We show in this article that, despite rejecting the additional frame restrictions, all the main ideas and results of the RS-frames approach relating to the semantics of non-distributive logics are captured in this simpler framework. This contributes in unifying the research field, and, in an important sense, it complements and completes Dunn's gaggle theory project for the particular case of logics that may drop distribution.
title Reconciliation of Approaches to the Semantics of Logics without Distribution
topic Logic
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2109.11597