2020 IJCAI IJCAI 2020

On the Decidability of Intuitionistic Tense Logic without Disjunction

Abstract

Implicative semi-lattices (also known as Brouwerian semi-lattices) are a generalization of Heyting algebras, and have been already well studied both from a logical and an algebraic perspective. In this paper, we consider the variety ISt of the expansions of implicative semi-lattices with tense modal operators, which are algebraic models of the disjunction-free fragment of intuitionistic tense logic. Using methods from algebraic proof theory, we show that the logic of tense implicative semi-lattices has the finite model property. Combining with the finite axiomatizability of the logic, it follows that the logic is decidable.

🧭 Keyword Pioneer — intuitionistic tense logic
🌉 Interdisciplinary Bridge — Artificial Intelligence and Knowledge & Reasoning and Machine Learning and Mathematics & Optimization
🐝 Cross-Pollinator — Artificial Intelligence, Knowledge & Reasoning, Machine Learning, Mathematics & Optimization

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