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Single Idea 9726

[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 2. Tools of Modal Logic / a. Symbols of ML ]

Full Idea

We let 'R' be the accessibility relation: xRy is read 'y is accessible from x'.

Clarification

The R is usually in a script font

Gist of Idea

We let 'R' be the accessibility relation: xRy is read 'y is accessible from x'

Source

M Fitting/R Mendelsohn (First-Order Modal Logic [1998], 1.5)

Book Ref

Fitting,M/Mendelsohn,R: 'First-Order Modal Logic' [Synthese 1998], p.9

The 4 ideas with the same theme [symbols which are distinctive of modal logic]:

9727 Modal logic adds □ (necessarily) and ◊ (possibly) to classical logic [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
9726 We let 'R' be the accessibility relation: xRy is read 'y is accessible from x' [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
9737 The symbol ||- is the 'forcing' relation; 'Γ ||- P' means that P is true in world Γ [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
13136 The prefix σ names a possible world, and σ.n names a world accessible from that one [Fitting/Mendelsohn]