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Supplement to Temporal Logic

Supplement: Burgess-Xu Axiomatic System for Since and Until and Some Extensions

The axiomatic system of Burgess-Xu for the reflexive versions of S and U extends classical propositional logic with the following axiom schemata and their mirror images (where G and H as well as U and S are swapped):

  • Gφφ
  • G(φψ)φUχψUχ
  • G(φψ)χUφχUψ
  • φχUψχU(ψχSφ)
  • φUψ(φφUψ)Uψ
  • φU(φφUψ)φUψ
  • φUψχUθ(φχ)U(ψθ)(φχ)U(ψχ)(φχ)U(φθ)

and the inference rules NECG and NECH. The translation of this axiomatization for the strict versions of S and U was extended by Venema (1993) to complete axiomatic systems for:

  • all discrete linear orderings: by adding FU and its dual PS;
  • all well-orderings: by further adding HPH and Fφ(¬φ)Uφ;
  • N,<: by further adding F.

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Valentin Goranko <valentin.goranko@philosophy.su.se>
Antje Rumberg <antje.rumberg@uni-tuebingen.de>

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