7 research outputs found
Fractional semantics for classical logic
This article presents a new (multivalued) semantics for classical propositional logic.
We begin by maximally extending the space of sequent proofs so as to admit proofs for any logical formula; then, we extract the new semantics by focusing on the axiomatic structure of proofs. In particular, the interpretation of a formula is given by the ratio between the number of identity axioms out of the total number of axioms occurring in any of its proofs. The outcome is an informational refinement of traditional Boolean semantics, obtained by breaking the symmetry between tautologies and contradictions
Molecular Biology Meets Logic : Context-Sensitiveness in Focus
Some real life processes, including molecular ones, are context-sensitive, in the sense that their outcome depends on side conditions that are most of the times difficult, or impossible, to express fully in advance. In this paper, we survey and discuss a logical account of context-sensitiveness in molecular processes, based on a kind of non-classical logic. This account also allows us to revisit the relationship between logic and philosophy of science (and philosophy of biology, in particular)
Molecular biology meets Logic : context-sensitiveness in focus
Some real life processes, including molecular ones, are context-sensitive, in the sense that their outcome depends on side conditions that are most of the times difficult, or impossible, to express fully in advance. In this paper, we survey and discuss a logical account of context-sensitiveness in molecular processes, based on a kind of non-classical logic. This account also allows us to revisit the relationship between logic and philosophy of science (and philosophy of biology, in particular)
Universal Quantitative Algebra for Fuzzy Relations and Generalised Metric Spaces
We present a generalisation of the theory of quantitative algebras of
Mardare, Panangaden and Plotkin where (i) the carriers of quantitative algebras
are not restricted to be metric spaces and can be arbitrary fuzzy relations or
generalised metric spaces, and (ii) the interpretations of the algebraic
operations are not required to be nonexpansive. Our main results include: a
novel sound and complete proof system, the proof that free quantitative
algebras always exist, the proof of strict monadicity of the induced
Free-Forgetful adjunction, the result that all monads (on fuzzy relations) that
lift finitary monads (on sets) admit a quantitative equational presentation.Comment: Appendix remove
Through and beyond classicality: analyticity, embeddings, infinity
Structural proof theory deals with formal representation of proofs and with the investigation of their properties. This thesis provides an analysis of various non-classical logical systems using proof-theoretic methods. The approach consists in the formulation of analytic calculi for these logics which are then used in order to study their metalogical properties. A specific attention is devoted to studying the connections between classical and non-classical reasoning. In particular, the use of analytic sequent calculi allows one to regain desirable structural properties which are lost in non-classical contexts. In this sense, proof-theoretic versions of embeddings between non-classical logics - both finitary and infinitary - prove to be a useful tool insofar as they build a bridge between different logical regions