Computer Science – Logic in Computer Science
Scientific paper
2008-07-23
ACM Transactions on Computational Logic, 12 (3), Article 21, 2011
Computer Science
Logic in Computer Science
43 pages, 3 tables
Scientific paper
10.1145/1929954.1929958
Sequential propositional logic deviates from ordinary propositional logic by taking into account that during the sequential evaluation of a propositional statement,atomic propositions may yield different Boolean values at repeated occurrences. We introduce `free valuations' to capture this dynamics of a propositional statement's environment. The resulting logic is phrased as an equationally specified algebra rather than in the form of proof rules, and is named `proposition algebra'. It is strictly more general than Boolean algebra to the extent that the classical connectives fail to be expressively complete in the sequential case. The four axioms for free valuation congruence are then combined with other axioms in order define a few more valuation congruences that gradually identify more propositional statements, up to static valuation congruence (which is the setting of conventional propositional logic). Proposition algebra is developed in a fashion similar to the process algebra ACP and the program algebra PGA, via an algebraic specification which has a meaningful initial algebra for which a range of coarser congruences are considered important as well. In addition infinite objects (that is propositional statements, processes and programs respectively) are dealt with by means of an inverse limit construction which allows the transfer of knowledge concerning finite objects to facts about infinite ones while reducing all facts about infinite objects to an infinity of facts about finite ones in return.
Bergstra Jan Aldert
Ponse Alban
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