The McKinsey Axiom on Weakly Transitive Frames

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Publication date 12-2025
Journal Studia Logica
Volume | Issue number 113 | 6
Pages (from-to) 1543-1566
Number of pages 24
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  • Interfacultary Research - Institute for Logic, Language and Computation (ILLC)
Abstract

The McKinsey axiom (M) □♦p → ♦□p has a local first-order correspondent on the class of all weakly transitive frames WT . It globally corresponds to Lemmon’s condition (m) on WT . The formula (M) is canonical over the weakly transitive modal logic wK4 = K ⊕ p ∧ □p → □□p. The modal logic wK4.1 = wK4 ⊕ M has the finite model property. The modal logics wK4.1Tn0 (n > 0) form an infinite descending chain in the interval [wK4.1, K4.1] and each of them has the finite model property. Thus all the modal logics wK4.1 and wK4.1Tn0  (n > 0) are decidable.

Document type Article
Language English
Published at https://doi.org/10.1007/s11225-024-10145-x
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