Natural Deduction in Classical First-Order Logic: Exceptions, Strong Normalization and Herbrand's Theorem
Résumé
We present a new Curry-Howard correspondence for classical first-order natural deduction. We add to the lambda calculus an operator which represents, from the viewpoint of programming, a mechanism for raising and catching multiple exceptions, and from the viewpoint of logic, the excluded middle over arbitrary prenex formulas. The machinery will allow to extend the idea of learning -- originally developed in Arithmetic -- to pure logic. We prove that our typed calculus is strongly normalizing and show that proof terms for simply existential statements reduce to a list of individual terms forming a Herbrand disjunction. A by-product of our approach is a natural-deduction proof and a computational interpretation of Herbrand's Theorem.
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Logique [math.LO]Origine | Fichiers produits par l'(les) auteur(s) |
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