It’s usual to analytical philosophers to use, implicitly or explicitly, logical formalization in their arguments, it aims to regulate valid inferences in certain rational contexts; for instance, modal logic is used to represent metaphysical notions. But the very adoption of a logical system demands philosophical assumptions. The relationship between topological spaces and the propositional modal system S4 is known since 1944. In 2008, Awodey and Kishida [08] demonstrated that the logic FOS4 is complete concerning for the class of sheaf-interpretations, bundle interpretations with topological structure. In this project, we investigate the topological properties of those semantics for S4 and FOS4. Such systems are locally similar to Euclidean spaces.
GUILHERME MESSIAS PEREIRA LIMA
Course
Direct Doctorate
Research title
Topological Semantics for Quantified Modal Logic: From a Metaphysical Perspective
Research abstract
Graduate Advisor
Edelcio Gonçalves de Souza
Lattes (curriculum vitae)
Date of defense
21/12/2021