Hybrid Logic and its Proof-Theory

• Main Author: Braüner, Torben (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2011.
• Series: Applied Logic Series, 37
• Subjects: Philosophy.; Logic.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.

 This is the first book-length treatment of hybrid logic and its proof-theory. Hybrid logic is an extension of ordinary modal logic which allows explicit reference to individual points in a model (where the points represent times, possible worlds, states in a computer, or something else). This is useful for many applications, for example when reasoning about time one often wants to formulate a series of statements about what happens at specific times. There is little consensus about proof-theory for ordinary modal logic. Many modal-logical proof systems lack important properties and the relationships between proof systems for different modal logics are often unclear. In the present book we demonstrate that hybrid-logical proof-theory remedies these deficiencies by giving a spectrum of well-behaved proof systems (natural deduction, Gentzen, tableau, and axiom systems) for a spectrum of different hybrid logics (propositional, first-order, intensional first-order, and intuitionistic). 

 Preface, -- 1 Introduction to Hybrid Logic -- 2 Proof-Theory of Propositional Hybrid Logic -- 3 Tableaus and Decision Procedures for Hybrid Logic -- 4 Comparison to Seligman’s Natural Deduction System -- 5 Functional Completeness for a Hybrid Logic -- 6 First-Order Hybrid -- 7 Intensional First-Order Hybrid Logic -- 8 Intuitionistic Hybrid Logic -- 9 Labelled Versus Internalized Natural Deduction -- 10 Why does the Proof-Theory of Hybrid Logic Behave soWell? - References -- Index.