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Experimental logics and Π30 theories1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Petr Hájek
Petr Hájek*
Affiliation:
Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, 115 67 Prague, Czechoslovakia
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Abstract

In this paper we are going to consider experimental logics introduced by Jeroslow [4] as models of human reasoning proceeding by trial and error, i.e. admitting changes of axioms in time (some axioms are deleted, some new ones accepted). Jeroslow's notion is based on the idea that events which may cause changes in axioms and rules of reasoning are mechanical. Suppose a finite alphabet Γ to be fixed and let Γ* be the set of words in the alphabet Γ. N denotes the set of natural numbers.

0.1. Definition. An experimental logic is a recursive relation H ⊆ N × Γ*; H(t, φ) is read “the expression is accepted at the point of time t”. φ is recurring w.r.t. H (notation: RecH(φ)) if H(t, φ) holds for infinitely many t; is stable w.r.t. H (notation: StblH(φ)) if H(t,φ) holds for all but finitely many t. In symbols:

H is convergent if every recurring expression is stable.

0.2. We have the following facts: Let X ∈ Γ*. (1) X ∈ iff there is an experimental logic H such that X = {φ; RecH(φ)}- (2) X ∈ iff there is an experimental logic H such that X = {φ; StblH(φ)}. (3) X ∈ iff there is a convergent experimental logic H such that X is the set of all expressions recurring ( = stable) w.r.t. H. (See [4], [3], [7]; cf. also [5].)

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Research Article
Information
The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , December 1977 , pp. 515 - 522
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1977

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Footnotes

1

Thanks are due to Professor R. G. Jeroslow for correspondence which has been very helpful in preparing the present paper. The results of this paper were presented at the conference on Mathematical Logic at the Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach on April 12, 1976. Thanks are due to Professors G. H. Müller and E. P. Specker for valuable comments. I am grateful to my wife M. Hájková who read the manuscript and detected various mistakes and to F. N. Springsteel who proofread the English.

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