Room P3.10, Mathematics Building

Walter A. Carnielli, CLE, Unicamp, Brazil

Minimalist modalities

Modal extensions of the Logics of Formal Inconsistency (LFIs) warrant new appropriate approaches to certain questions involving the Paradox of Knowability. We show that any propositional logic $L$ which extends the classical implicative fragment ImPC and which is sound and complete with respect to dyadic semantics can be, by its turn, extended to a modal logic $KL$ $\langle j,k,m,n\rangle$ (through the axiom schemes (K), $G$ $\langle j,k,m,n\rangle$ and the Necessitation) in such a way that $KL$ $\langle j,k,m,n\rangle$ is constructively characterizable by Kripke structures, independently of any properties of negation. In particular, families of modal LFIs can in this way be defined, with application to questions of knowability.