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T \(\times\) W completeness. (English) Zbl 0873.03023

Summary: \(\text{T}\times\text{W}\) logic is a combination of tense logic and modal logic for worlds or histories with the same time order. It is the basis for logics of causation, agency and conditionals, and therefore an important tool for philosophical logic. Semantically it has been defined, among others, by R. H. Thomason. Using an operator expressing truth in all worlds, first discussed by C. M. Di Maio and A. Zanardo, an axiomatization is given and its completeness proved via D. Gabbay’s irreflexivity lemma. Given this lemma the proof is more or less straightforward. At the end, an alternative axiomatization is sketched in which Di Maio and Zanardo’s operator is replaced by a version of “actually”.

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03B45 Modal logic (including the logic of norms)
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