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On a Propositional Calculus Whose Decision Problem is Recursively Unsolvable1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 January 2016

Akira Nakamura*
Affiliation:
Faculty of Engineering, Hiroshima University
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The purpose of this paper is to present a propositional calculus whose decision problem is recursively unsolvable. The paper is based on the following ideas:

  • (1) Using Löwenheim-Skolem’s Theorem and Surányi’s Reduction Theorem, we will construct an infinitely many-valued propositional calculus corresponding to the first-order predicate calculus.

  • (2) It is well known that the decision problem of the first-order predicate calculus is recursively unsolvable.

  • (3) Thus it will be shown that the decision problem of the infinitely many-valued propositional calculus is recursively unsolvable.

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