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First-Order Modal Logic via Logical Categories

Published: April 3, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.02985v1

By: Silvio Ghilardi, Jérémie Marquès

Potential Business Impact:

Makes computers understand logic better.

Business Areas:
Primary Education Education

We extend the logical categories framework to first order modal logic. In our modal categories, modal operators are applied directly to subobjects and interact with the background factorization system. We prove a Joyal-style representation theorem into relational structures formalizing a `counterpart' notion. We investigate saturation conditions related to definability questions and we enrich our framework with quotients and disjoint sums, thus leading to the notion of a modal (quasi) pretopos. We finally show how to build syntactic categories out of first order modal theories.

Page Count
41 pages

Category
Computer Science:
Logic in Computer Science