Expressivity of extensions of dynamic first-order logic


Συγγραφέας: Balder ten Cate, Jan van Eijck


Balder ten Cate, Jan van Eijck: Expressivity of extensions of dynamic first-order logic (pdf, 6 pages)
Dynamic predicate logic (DPL), presented in [5] as a formalism for representing anaphoric linking in natural language, can be viewed as a fragment of a well known formalism for reasoning about imperative programming [6]. An interesting difference from other forms of dynamic logic is that the distinction between formulas and programs gets dropped: DPL formulas can be viewed as programs. In this paper we show that DPL is in fact the basis of a hierarchy of formulas-as-programs languages.