Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 December 2021
We show that monadic intuitionistic quantifiers admit the following temporal interpretation: “always in the future” (for
$\forall $
) and “sometime in the past” (for
$\exists $
). It is well known that Prior’s intuitionistic modal logic
${\sf MIPC}$
axiomatizes the monadic fragment of the intuitionistic predicate logic, and that
${\sf MIPC}$
is translated fully and faithfully into the monadic fragment
${\sf MS4}$
of the predicate
${\sf S4}$
via the Gödel translation. To realize the temporal interpretation mentioned above, we introduce a new tense extension
${\sf TS4}$
of
${\sf S4}$
and provide a full and faithful translation of
${\sf MIPC}$
into
${\sf TS4}$
. We compare this new translation of
${\sf MIPC}$
with the Gödel translation by showing that both
${\sf TS4}$
and
${\sf MS4}$
can be translated fully and faithfully into a tense extension of
${\sf MS4}$
, which we denote by
${\sf MS4.t}$
. This is done by utilizing the relational semantics for these logics. As a result, we arrive at the diagram of full and faithful translations shown in Figure 1 which is commutative up to logical equivalence. We prove the finite model property (fmp) for
${\sf MS4.t}$
using algebraic semantics, and show that the fmp for the other logics involved can be derived as a consequence of the fullness and faithfulness of the translations considered.