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- From: gar@cltr.uq.oz.au (Greg Restall)
- Subject: Re: Equivalence of Strong completeness and categoricity
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- Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1992 06:09:32 GMT
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- boshuck@triples.math.mcgill.ca (William Boshuck) writes:
-
- * The proof which answers question 1) depends on something
- * called the deduction theorem which, in turn gives an answer to
- * the second question. The deduction theorem says that for a
- * theory T and formulas F,G, that the following inferences (both
- * top to bottom and bottom to top) are valid
- *
- * T,F |- G
- * ------------
- * T |- F ==> G .
- *
- * (I am using |- to denote provability in whatever logic is
- * under consideration) In some treatments of logic, this is
- * virtually the definition of implication (perhaps rightly so).
- * In particular, this rule is valid in intuitionistic, and modal
- * logics (at least in the more common ones like S4).
-
- Pretty good so far...
-
- * If T is a theory in a logic which admits the above rule for
- * implication then we can say the following. First, categoricity
- * implies strong completeness: Suppose T is categorical. If T |-
- * F then that's it. Otherwise, T |- ~F in which case T,F |- F &
- * ~F so T adjoin F is an inconsistent theory.
-
- But not here.
-
- It's not that it's in *error*, but just that it's not
- so general. There are plenty of good logics (like R,
- R-W, Linear Logic, and so on), that satisfy modus ponens
- and the deduction theorem (in the way you describe),
- but that don't validate the move:
-
- A |- C
- -------- (Weakening; or K)
- A,B |- C
-
- which you need (in some form) to get from T |- ~F to
- T,F |- F & ~F.
-
- The reason you might want to get rid of the offending
- principle is to invalidate the offensive
-
- |- C
- -------
- |- B->C
-
- which is invalid in all of the systems mentioned above,
- and frankly, which *ought* to be invalid, on many sensible
- readings of `->'.
-
- Relevantly yours,
-
- Greg Restall
-
-
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- Greg Restall Philosophy Department, University of Queensland.
- gar@cltr.uq.oz.au Queensland, 4072. Australia.
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