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The main purpose of this paper is to define and study a particular variety of Montague-Scott neighborhood semantics for modal propositional logic. We call this variety the “first-order neighborhood semantics” because it consists of the neighborhood frames whose neighborhood operations are, in a certain sense, first-order definable. The paper consists of two parts. In Part I we begin by presenting a family of modal systems. We recall the Montague-Scott semantics and apply it to some of our systems that have hitherto be uncharacterized. Then, we define the notion of a first-order indefinite semantics, along with the more specific notion of a first-order uniform semantics, the latter containing as special cases the possible world semantics of Kripke. In Part II we prove consistency and completeness for a broad range of the systems considered, with respect to the first-order indefinite semantics, and for a selected list of systems, with respect to the first-order uniform semantics. The completeness proofs are algebraic in character and make essential use of the finite model property. A by-product of our investigations is a result relating provability in “S-systems” and provability in “T-systems”, which generalizes a known theorem relating provability in the systems S 2° and C 2.
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The author would like to thank Prof. Nuel D. Belnap of the University of Pittsburg for many indispensable contributions to earlier versions of this work. The author also thanks the referee for several helpful comments and corrections.
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Vander Nat, A. First-order indefinite and uniform neighbourhood semantics. Stud Logica 38, 277–296 (1979). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00405386
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