Very weak subintuitionistic logics

Abstract

We introduce a new propositional logic, called very weak subintuitionistic logic $\mathbf{VF}$, by adapting the relational semantics of Fitting, Marek, and Truszczyński for the pure logic of necessitation $\mathbf{N}$ to the propositional setting. We prove that $\mathbf{VF}$ and its closed negative extensions are sound and complete with respect to this semantics, and that they have the disjunction property and the finite frame property. We also prove that $\mathbf{VF}$ is strictly weaker than the weak subintuitionistic logic $\mathbf{WF}$ of Maleki and de Jongh. Finally, we study modal companions of $\mathbf{VF}$ and its closed negative extensions via Corsi's modified Gödel translation.

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