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On Natural Deduction in Classical First-Order Logic: Curry-Howard Correspondence, Strong Normalization and Herbrand's Theorem

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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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hal-00931128 , version 1 (14-01-2014)
hal-00931128 , version 2 (18-01-2014)
hal-00931128 , version 3 (25-02-2014)
hal-00931128 , version 4 (02-03-2014)
hal-00931128 , version 5 (19-09-2014)
hal-00931128 , version 6 (22-10-2015)
hal-00931128 , version 7 (02-03-2016)

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Federico Aschieri, Margherita Zorzi. On Natural Deduction in Classical First-Order Logic: Curry-Howard Correspondence, Strong Normalization and Herbrand's Theorem. Theoretical Computer Science, 2016. ⟨hal-00931128v7⟩
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