A didactical approach to the zero-one decision procedure of the expressions of the first order monadic predicate calculus

Studia Logica ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 76-76
Author(s):  
L. Borkowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
First Order

On simplifying the matrix of a wff

1968 ◽  
Vol 33 (2) ◽  
pp. 180-192 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Andrews
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
Decision Procedure ◽  
Conjunctive Normal Form ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Order Predicate Calculus

In [3], [4], and [5] Joyce Friedman formulated and investigated certain rules which constitute a semi-decision procedure for wffs of first order predicate calculus in closed prenex normal form with prefixes of the form ∀x1 … ∀xκ∃y1 … ∃ym∀z1 … ∀zn. Given such a wff QM, where Q is the prefix and M is the matrix in conjunctive normal form, Friedman's rules can be used, in effect, to construct a matrix M* which is obtained from M by deleting certain conjuncts of M.

An undecidable two sorted predicate calculus

1969 ◽  
Vol 34 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-23 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. B. Slomson
Keyword(s):  
Decision Procedure ◽  
The Other ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
First Order ◽  
Predicate Language

Let L be a first order predicate language with two sorts of variables and a single dyadic predicate letter whose first place is to be filled by variables of one sort and whose second place is to be filled by variables of the other sort. In answer to a question of M. H. Löb we show that there is no decision procedure for determining whether or not a sentence of L is universally valid.

Resolution systems and their applications I

1980 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 235-268
Author(s):  
Ewa Orłowska
Keyword(s):  
Theorem Proving ◽  
Sufficient Conditions ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
Resolution Method ◽  
First Order ◽  
Deductive Systems ◽  
Resolution System ◽  
Resolution Principle ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient ◽  
Classical Predicate

The central method employed today for theorem-proving is the resolution method introduced by J. A. Robinson in 1965 for the classical predicate calculus. Since then many improvements of the resolution method have been made. On the other hand, treatment of automated theorem-proving techniques for non-classical logics has been started, in connection with applications of these logics in computer science. In this paper a generalization of a notion of the resolution principle is introduced and discussed. A certain class of first order logics is considered and deductive systems of these logics with a resolution principle as an inference rule are investigated. The necessary and sufficient conditions for the so-called resolution completeness of such systems are given. A generalized Herbrand property for a logic is defined and its connections with the resolution-completeness are presented. A class of binary resolution systems is investigated and a kind of a normal form for derivations in such systems is given. On the ground of the methods developed the resolution system for the classical predicate calculus is described and the resolution systems for some non-classical logics are outlined. A method of program synthesis based on the resolution system for the classical predicate calculus is presented. A notion of a resolution-interpretability of a logic L in another logic L ′ is introduced. The method of resolution-interpretability consists in establishing a relation between formulas of the logic L and some sets of formulas of the logic L ′ with the intention of using the resolution system for L ′ to prove theorems of L. It is shown how the method of resolution-interpretability can be used to prove decidability of sets of unsatisfiable formulas of a given logic.

A reduction class containing formulas with one monadic predicate and one binary function symbol

1976 ◽  
Vol 41 (1) ◽  
pp. 45-49
Author(s):  
Charles E. Hughes
Keyword(s):  
Normal Form ◽  
Predicate Symbol ◽  
Conjunctive Normal Form ◽  
Function Symbol ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
Binary Function ◽  
First Order ◽  
The Matrix ◽  
Reduction Class ◽  
Order Predicate Calculus

AbstractA new reduction class is presented for the satisfiability problem for well-formed formulas of the first-order predicate calculus. The members of this class are closed prenex formulas of the form ∀x∀yC. The matrix C is in conjunctive normal form and has no disjuncts with more than three literals, in fact all but one conjunct is unary. Furthermore C contains but one predicate symbol, that being unary, and one function symbol which symbol is binary.

On the strong semantical completeness of the intuitionistic predicate calculus

1968 ◽  
Vol 33 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richmond H. Thomason
Keyword(s):  
Model Theory ◽  
Completeness Theorem ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
First Order ◽  
Semantic Tableaux ◽  
Weak Completeness ◽  
Skolem Theorem ◽  
Completeness Theorems

In Kripke [8] the first-order intuitionjstic predicate calculus (without identity) is proved semantically complete with respect to a certain model theory, in the sense that every formula of this calculus is shown to be provable if and only if it is valid. Metatheorems of this sort are frequently called weak completeness theorems—the object of the present paper is to extend Kripke's result to obtain a strong completeness theorem for the intuitionistic predicate calculus of first order; i.e., we will show that a formula A of this calculus can be deduced from a set Γ of formulas if and only if Γ implies A. In notes 3 and 5, below, we will indicate how to account for identity, as well. Our proof of the completeness theorem employs techniques adapted from Henkin [6], and makes no use of semantic tableaux; this proof will also yield a Löwenheim-Skolem theorem for the modeling.

scholarly journals On a Propositional Calculus Whose Decision Problem is Recursively Unsolvable

1970 ◽  
Vol 38 ◽  
pp. 145-152
Author(s):  
Akira Nakamura
Keyword(s):  
Decision Problem ◽  
Propositional Calculus ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
Reduction Theorem ◽  
List Type ◽  
First Order ◽  
Order Predicate Calculus

The purpose of this paper is to present a propositional calculus whose decision problem is recursively unsolvable. The paper is based on the following ideas: (1) Using Löwenheim-Skolem’s Theorem and Surányi’s Reduction Theorem, we will construct an infinitely many-valued propositional calculus corresponding to the first-order predicate calculus.(2) It is well known that the decision problem of the first-order predicate calculus is recursively unsolvable.(3) Thus it will be shown that the decision problem of the infinitely many-valued propositional calculus is recursively unsolvable.

Translating Advanced Integrity Checking Technology to SQL

2002 ◽  
pp. 203-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hendrik Decker
Keyword(s):  
Natural Language ◽  
Order Logic ◽  
Predicate Calculus ◽  
Integrity Constraints ◽  
First Order Logic ◽  
First Order ◽  
Integrity Checking ◽  
Natural Language Interface ◽  
User Friendly ◽  
Declarative Specifications

The main goal of this chapter is to arrive at a coherent technology for deriving efficient SQL triggers from declarative specifications of arbitrary integrity constraints. The user may specify integrity constraints declaratively as closed queries in predicate calculus syntax (i.e., sentences in the language of first-order logic, abbr. FOL), as datalog denials, as query conditions in SQL WHERE clauses, or in some other, possibly more user-friendly manner (e.g., via a dialog-driven graphical or natural language interface which internally translates to equivalent WHERE clause conditions). As we are going to see, the triggers derived from such specifications behave such that whenever some update event would violate any of the integrity constraints, one or several of the triggers derived from that constraint are activated in order to enforce the constraint. That is, the violation is either prevented by rolling back the update or repaired instantly by subsequent further updates.

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