Tarskian variations: dynamic parameters in classical semantics
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Beteiligte Personen: Benthem, Johan van 1949- (VerfasserIn), Cepparello, Giovanna (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Amsterdam 1994
Schriftenreihe:Centrum voor Wiskunde en Informatica <Amsterdam> / Department of Computer Science: Report CS 94,19
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Abstract:Abstract: "In this paper we propose a general perspective of 'Tarskian Variations' providing standard logics uniformly with a dynamic semantics. Many systems from the current literature can be viewed as different implementations of this same basic idea. Given that, we investigate two main technical issues. First, we develop our general dynamic semantics against the background of 'static' logic. In particular, we briefly sketch an axiomatization of our system and a correspondence theory for its models, while also providing an explicit translation of the system into a static one. Next, we study some questions of 'design' of dynamic languages: in particular, how to combine updates with non- eliminative programs, and how to choose a suitable procedural repertoire. Our answer to this second point consists in giving a number of criteria, suggested by other research areas, including logicality, bisimulation safety, as well as further denotational constraints from the theory of Generalized Quantifiers. As a case study we take dynamic negation, as it shows in various systems, providing some technical results on how to characterize its behaviour (using, for instance, inverse logic reasoning in Relational Algebra and Update Logic)."
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