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Single Idea 9743

[filed under theme 4. Formal Logic / D. Modal Logic ML / 3. Modal Logic Systems / c. System D ]

Full Idea

The system D has the 'serial' condition imposed on its accessibility relation - that is, every world must have some world which is accessible to it.

Gist of Idea

The system D has the 'serial' conditon imposed on its accessibility relation

Source

M Fitting/R Mendelsohn (First-Order Modal Logic [1998], 1.8)

Book Ref

Fitting,M/Mendelsohn,R: 'First-Order Modal Logic' [Synthese 1998], p.19


The 6 ideas with the same theme [version with guaranteed access to some world]:

D is valid on every serial frame, but not where there are dead ends [Cresswell]
□P → P is not valid in D (Deontic Logic), since an obligatory action may be not performed [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
The system D has the 'serial' conditon imposed on its accessibility relation [Fitting/Mendelsohn]
Intuitively, deontic accessibility seems not to be reflexive, but to be serial [Sider]
In D we add that 'what is necessary is possible'; then tautologies are possible, and contradictions not necessary [Sider]
Deontic modalities are 'ought-to-be', for sentences, and 'ought-to-do' for predicates [Vetter]