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Hyper-digital and modal logic

may 2007

Abstract

Recall the syntax of hyper-propositional logic (see e.g. [1]): Starting with any given atom set A we obtained an infinite hierarchy of formula sets $\mathfrak{F}_{A}^{k}$ by applying the following syntactical constructions:

Let us write F(A) for the (mixed) hyper-(propositional) formula set, i.e. the union of all the $ \mathfrak{F}_{A}^{k}$ (see [2])

On the other hand, there are the well known modal formulas M(A): given a set A, they are constructed by recursively and arbitrarily applying the box, diamond, conjunction, disjunction, and negation. But different to F(A), there are no degrees, the constructions can be performed on any argument formulas. We can read hyper-formulas as modal formulas. In this respect, F(A) is a subset of M(A).

Of course, the semantics of the two systems are very different. Hyper-formulas are interpreted as bit tables, modal formulas on the other hand describe Kripke models. Our goal here is to investigate the possible relations and mutual translations of these two systems.

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References

[1] Hyper-propositional logic: Summarized overview of its syntax and semantics
[2] Mixed hyper-digital logic

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