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Hilbert's Program Then and Now
Hilbert's program was an ambitious and wide-ranging project in the philosophy
and foundations of mathematics. In order to "dispose of the foundational
questions in mathematics once and for all, "Hilbert proposed a two-pronged
approach in 1921: first, classical mathematics should be formalized in
axiomatic systems; second, using only restricted, "finitary" means, one should
give proofs of the consistency of these axiomatic systems. Although Godel's
incompleteness theorems show that the program as originally conceived cannot be
carried out, it had many partial successes, and generated important advances in
logical theory and meta-theory, both at the time and since. The article
discusses the historical background and development of Hilbert's program, its
philosophical underpinnings and consequences, and its subsequent development
and influences since the 1930s.Comment: 43 page
Ultimate approximations in nonmonotonic knowledge representation systems
We study fixpoints of operators on lattices. To this end we introduce the
notion of an approximation of an operator. We order approximations by means of
a precision ordering. We show that each lattice operator O has a unique most
precise or ultimate approximation. We demonstrate that fixpoints of this
ultimate approximation provide useful insights into fixpoints of the operator
O.
We apply our theory to logic programming and introduce the ultimate
Kripke-Kleene, well-founded and stable semantics. We show that the ultimate
Kripke-Kleene and well-founded semantics are more precise then their standard
counterparts We argue that ultimate semantics for logic programming have
attractive epistemological properties and that, while in general they are
computationally more complex than the standard semantics, for many classes of
theories, their complexity is no worse.Comment: This paper was published in Principles of Knowledge Representation
and Reasoning, Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference (KR2002
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Mathematical Logic: Proof theory, Constructive Mathematics
The workshop âMathematical Logic: Proof Theory, Constructive Mathematicsâ was centered around proof-theoretic aspects of current mathematics, constructive mathematics and logical aspects of computational complexit
A predicative variant of a realizability tripos for the Minimalist Foundation.
open2noHere we present a predicative variant of a realizability tripos validating
the intensional level of the Minimalist Foundation extended with Formal Church
thesis.the file attached contains the whole number of the journal including the mentioned pubblicationopenMaietti, Maria Emilia; Maschio, SamueleMaietti, MARIA EMILIA; Maschio, Samuel
UNFOLDING FINITIST ARITHMETIC
The concept of the (full) unfolding \user1{{\cal U}}(S) of a schematic system is used to answer the following question: Which operations and predicates, and which principles concerning them, ought to be accepted if one has accepted ? The program to determine \user1{{\cal U}}(S) for various systems of foundational significance was previously carried out for a system of nonfinitist arithmetic, ; it was shown that \user1{{\cal U}}(NFA) is proof-theoretically equivalent to predicative analysis. In the present paper we work out the unfolding notions for a basic schematic system of finitist arithmetic, , and for an extension of that by a form of the so-called Bar Rule. It is shown that \user1{{\cal U}}(FA) and \user1{{\cal U}}(FA + BR) are proof-theoretically equivalent, respectively, to Primitive Recursive Arithmetic, , and to Peano Arithmetic, $PA
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