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Workshop "Modal & Many-Valued Logics"

31 Jan 2018
Paris, France

Modal and Many-Valued Logics

Workshop
January 31, 2018

École Normale Supérieure
Salle Théodule Ribot
29, rue d'Ulm
75005 Paris

Workshop organized by École Normale Supérieure and Institut d?Histoire et 
de Philosophie des Sciences et des Techniques, with funding from the 
University Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the project ?New Ideas in 
Mathematical Philosophy? (DEC-ENS).

*Program*

9:00 ? 9:50 ? Andreas Herzig (CNRS, IRIT), A poor man?s epistemic logic 
based on propositional assignment and higher-order observation (joint work 
with Emiliano Lorini and Faustine Maffre)

9:50 ? 10:40 ? Paul Égré (CNRS, ENS), Varieties of logical consequence and 
Suszko's Problem (joint work with Emmanuel Chemla)

10:40 ? 10:50 ? coffee break

10:50 ? 11:40 ? Allard Tamminga (University of Groningen, Utrecht 
University), Two-sided sequent calculi for FDE-like four-valued logics

11:40 ? 12:30 ? Ekaterina Kubyshkina (Paris 1, IHPST), On modal 
translation of many-valued logics


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*Abstracts*


Andreas Herzig (joint work with Emiliano Lorini and Faustine Maffre)

A poor man?s epistemic logic based on propositional assignment and 
higher-order observation

We introduce a dynamic epistemic logic that is based on what an agentcan 
observe, including joint observation and observation of what other agents 
observe. This generalizes van der Hoek,Wooldridge and colleague?s logics 
ECLPC(PO) and LRC where it is common knowledge which propositional 
variables each agent observes. In our logic, facts of the world and their 
observability can both be modified by assignment programs. We show how 
epistemic operatorscan be interpreted in this framework and identify the 
conditions under whichthe principles of positive and negative 
introspection are valid. Finally, we show how public and private 
announcements can be expressed and illustrate the latter by the gossip 
spreading problem.

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Paul Égré (joint work with Emmanuel Chemla)

Varieties of logical consequence and Suszko's Problem

Suszko's problem is the problem of finding the minimal number of truth 
values needed to semantically characterize a syntactic consequence 
relation. Suszko proved that every Tarskian consequence relation can be 
characterized using only two truth values. Malinowski showed that this 
number can equal three if some of Tarski's structural constraints are 
relaxed. By so doing, Malinowski introduced a case of so-called mixed 
consequence (following Cobreros et al. 2012?s terminology), allowing the 
notion of a designated value to vary between the premises and the 
conclusions of an argument. In this paper we give a more systematic 
perspective on Suszko's problem and on the characterization of mixed 
consequence relations more generally. First, we prove general 
representation theorems relating structural properties of a consequence 
relation to their semantic counterparts. Based on those we derive and 
strengthen maximum-rank results proved recently by French and Ripley 
(2017), and by Blasio, Wansing and Marcos (2017) in a different setting 
for logics with various structural properties (reflexivity, transitivity, 
none, or both). We use those results to discuss the foundational problem 
of what to admit as a bone fide consequence relation in logic.

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Allard Tamminga

Two-sided sequent calculi for FDE-like four-valued logics

We present a general modular method to generate cut-free, two-sided 
sequent calculi for four-valued logics like first degree entailment (FDE). 
Our method relies on correspondences between truth-table entries and 
sequent rules. First,we show that for every truth-functional n-ary 
operator * every truth-table entry f*(x1, . . . ,xn) = y can be 
characterized in terms of two sequent rules. Consequently, every 
truth-functional n-ary operator can be characterized in terms of 2x4^n 
sequent rules. Secondly, we build sequent calculi on the basis of these 
characterizing sequent rules and prove completeness for every sequent 
calculus with respect to its particular semantics. Lastly, we show that 
the 2x4^n sequent rules that characterize an n-ary operator can be 
systematically reduced to at most four sequent rules.

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Ekaterina Kubyshkina

On modal translation of many-valued logics

Kooi and Tamminga (2013) define a Translation Manual that converts any 
formula of any three-valued propositional logic into a modal formula. This 
Translation Manual permits to show that every three-valued valuation has 
an equivalent S5-model and vice versa. The authors remark that an 
analogical result can be introduced for any four-valued propositional 
logic and modal logic interpreted on minimal models M = <W, N, V>, where N 
is a universal neighborhood. The universality of the neighborhood imposed 
on the model, as well as the restriction to a S5-model in a three-valued 
case, are strong and not always desirable conditions. In our talk we 
modify the Translation Manual for the case of four-valued logics. This 
shows that the universality of neighborhoods may be replaced by the 
D-condition (also known as the consistency condition, it corresponds to 
the D-axiom). The D-condition is weaker than the universality condition 
and in some cases (especially if the modal operators are interpreted 
epistemically) is more desirable. We exemplify our proposal on a specific 
four-valued logic introduced by Kubyshkina and Zaitsev (2016). Our 
technique may be also applied to the three-valued case and it provides a 
way to avoid the restriction to S5-models.

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*Organizers*

Paul Égré (paul.egre@ens.fr <mailto:paul.egre@ens.fr>)

Ekaterina Kubyshkina (ekaterina.kubyshkina@univ-paris1.fr 
<mailto:ekaterina.kubyshkina@univ-paris1.fr>)

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This event is taking place in the context of Ekaterina Kubyshkina's PhD 
defense ("La logique de l'agent rationnel" / "The Logic of Rational 
Agent"), Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, January 30, 2018, 
http://www.ihpst.cnrs.fr/activites/autres/soutenance-de-these-ekaterina-kubyshkina 
<http://www.ihpst.cnrs.fr/activites/autres/soutenance-de-these-ekaterina-kubyshkina>).
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