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Inquisitive split and structural completeness

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 May 2025

Thomas Ferguson
Affiliation:
Department of Cognitive Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY, USA
Vít Punčochář*
Affiliation:
Institute of Philosophy, Czech Academy of Sciences, 11000 Prague, Czechia
*
Corresponding author: Vít Punčochář; Email: puncochar@flu.cas.cz

Abstract

In this paper, the notion of structural completeness is explored in the context of a generalized class of superintuitionistic logics that also involve systems that are not closed under uniform substitution. We just require that each logic must be closed under $D$-substitutions assigning to atomic formulas only $\vee$-free formulas. For these systems, we introduce four different notions of structural completeness and study how they are related. We focus on superintuitionistic inquisitive logics that validate a schema called Split and have the disjunction property. In these logics, disjunction can be interpreted in the sense of inquisitive semantics as a question-forming operator. It is shown that a logic is structurally complete with respect to $D$-substitutions if and only if it validates Split. Various consequences of this result are explored. For example, it is shown that every superintuitionistic inquisitive logic can be characterized by a Kripke model built from $D$-substitutions. We also formulate an algebraic counterpart of this result that says that the Lindenbaum–Tarski algebra ${\mathscr{H}}$ of any inquisitive logic can be embedded into the Heyting algebra formed from left ideals of endomorphisms on ${\mathscr{H}}$. Additionally, we resolve a conjecture concerning superintuitionistic inquisitive logics due to Miglioli et al. and show that a false conjecture about superintuitionistic logics due to Minari and Wroński becomes true in the broader space of regular generalized superintuitionistic logics.

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Type
Special issue: WoLLIC 2023
Copyright
© The Author(s), 2025. Published by Cambridge University Press

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