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Author Blackburn, Patrick

Title Handbook of Modal Logic
Published Burlington : Elsevier, 2006

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Description 1 online resource (1261 pages)
Series Studies in Logic and Practical Reasoning ; v. 3
Studies in logic and practical reasoning.
Contents Front Cover; Handbook of Modal Logic; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Preface; Part 1. Basic Theory; Chapter 1 Modal Logic: A Semantic Perspective; 1 Introduction; 2 Basic modal logic; 2.1 First steps in relational semantics; 2.2 The standard translation; 3 Bisimulation and definability; 3.1 Drawing distinctions; 3.2 Bisimulation; 3.3 Invariance and definability in first-order logic; 3.4 Invariance and definability in modal logic; 3.5 Modal logic and first-order logic compared; 3.6 Bisimulation as a game; 4 Computation and complexity; 4.1 Model checking
880-01 6.8 Combined logics6.9 First-order modal logic; 6.10 General perspectives; 7 Alternative semantics; 7.1 Algebraic semantics; 7.2 Neighbourhood semantics; 7.3 Topological semantics; 8 Modal logic and its changing environment; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Chapter 2 Modal Proof Theory; 1 Introduction; 2 Modal Axiomatics; 2.1 Normal Axiom Systems; 2.2 Soundness and Completeness; 2.3 Difficulties, and GL; 2.4 Sahlqvist Formulas; 3 Deduction, and the Deduction Theorem; 4 Natural Deduction; 4.1 Classical Natural Deduction; 4.2 Modal Natural Deduction; 5 Semantic Tableaus
880-01/(S 4.2 Satisfiability and validity: decidability4.3 Satisfiability and validity: complexity; 4.4 Other reasoning tasks; 5 Richer logics; 5.1 Axioms and relational frame properties; 5.2 Frame definability and undefinability; 5.3 Frame correspondence and second-order logic; 5.4 First-order frame definability; 5.5 Correspondence in richer languages; 5.6 Remarks on computability; 6 Richer languages; 6.1 The universal modality; 6.2 Hybrid logic; 6.3 Temporal logic with Until and Since operators; 6.4 Conditional logic; 6.5 The guarded fragment; 6.6 Propositional Dynamic Logic; 6.7 The modal μ-calculus
5.1 A Classical Tableau System5.2 Destructive Modal Tableaus; 5.3 Soundness and Completeness; 5.4 The Logic GL; 5.5 Tableau Remarks; 6 Prefixed Tableaus; 6.1 A Prefixed System for K; 6.2 Soundness and Completeness; 6.3 Other Modal Logics; 7 Gentzen Systems; 7.1 Classical Propositional Sequents; 7.2 Modal Propositional Sequents; 8 Hypersequents; 8.1 Hypersequents for S5; 8.2 Examples; 8.3 Soundness and Completeness; 9 Logics of Knowledge; 9.1 A Basic Logic of Knowledge; 9.2 Common Knowledge; 10 Converse; 11 The Universal Modality and the Difference Modality; 12 What Are the Limitations
13 Quantified Modal Logic13.1 Syntax and Semantics; 13.2 Constant Domain Tableaus; 13.3 Soundness and Completeness; 13.4 Variations; 14 Conclusion; Bibliography; Chapter 3 Complexity of Modal Logic; 1 Introduction; 1.1 Examples of decision problems in modal logic; 1.2 A simple and a hard problem; 1.3 The model checking problem; 1.4 The consequence problem; 1.5 A tiling logic; 2 Decision algorithms; 2.1 Selection of points; 2.2 Filtration; 2.3 Hintikka set elimination; 2.4 Hintikka set elimination without constraints; 2.5 Forcing exponentially deep paths; 2.6 Tree automata; 2.7 Pseudo-models
Summary Compact reference of modern modal logic theory and applications
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Author Van Benthem, Johan F. A. K
Wolter, Frank
ISBN 9780080466668
0080466664