Free-variable tableaux for propositional modal logics

Bernhard Beckert; Rajeev Goré

doi:10.1023/A:1013886427723

Free-variable tableaux for propositional modal logics

Bernhard Beckert^*, Rajeev Goré

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Abstract

Free-variable semantic tableaux are a well-established technique for firstorder theorem proving where free variables act as a meta-linguistic device for tracking the eigenvariables used during proof search. We present the theoretical foundations to extend this technique to propositional modal logics, including non-trivial rigorous proofs of soundness and completeness, and also present various techniques that improve the efficiency of the basic naive method for such tableaux.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	59-96
Number of pages	38
Journal	Studia Logica
Volume	69
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1013886427723
Publication status	Published - 2001

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