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UNIFORM DEFINABILITY IN PROPOSITIONAL DEPENDENCE LOGIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2017

FAN YANG*
Affiliation:
Department of Values, Technology and Innovation, Delft University of Technology
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*DEPARTMENT OF VALUES, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY, JAFFALAAN 5 2628 BX DELFT, THE NETHERLANDS E-mail: fan.yang.c@gmail.com

Abstract

Both propositional dependence logic and inquisitive logic are expressively complete. As a consequence, every formula in the language of inquisitive logic with intuitionistic disjunction or intuitionistic implication can be translated equivalently into a formula in the language of propositional dependence logic without these two connectives. We show that although such a (noncompositional) translation exists, neither intuitionistic disjunction nor intuitionistic implication is uniformly definable in propositional dependence logic.

Type
Research Article
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2017 

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Footnotes

This research was carried out in the Graduate School in Mathematics and its Applications of the University of Helsinki, Finland. Results of this paper were included in the dissertation (Yang, 2014) of the author.

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