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The modal logic of inequality

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Maarten de Rijke*
Affiliation:
Department of Mathematics And Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, 1018 TV Amsterdam, The, Netherlands, E-mail: maartenr@fwi.uva.nl

Abstract

We consider some modal languages with a modal operator D whose semantics is based on the relation of inequality. Basic logical properties such as definability, expressive power and completeness are studied. Also, some connections with a number of other recent proposals to extend the standard modal language are pointed at.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1992

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