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Saarland University Computer Science

Constructive and Mechanised Meta-Theory of Intuitionistic Epistemic Logic

Christian Hagemeier, Dominik Kirst

Logical Foundations of Computer Science (LFCS), January 10-13, 2022, Deerfield Beach, Florida, U.S.A., Springer, 2022

Artemov and Protopopescu proposed intuitionistic epistemic logic (IEL) to capture an intuitionistic conception of knowledge. By establishing completeness, they provided the base for a meta-theoretic investigation of IEL, which was continued by Krupski with a proof of cut-elimination, and Su and Sano establishing semantic cut-elimination and the finite model property. However, to the best of our knowledge, no analysis of these results in a constructive meta-logic has been conducted.

We aim to close this gap and investigate IEL in the constructive type theory of the Coq proof assistant. Concretely, we present a constructive and mechanised completeness proof for IEL, employing a syntactic decidability proof based on cut-elimination to constructivise the ideas from the literature. Following Su and Sano, we then also give constructive versions of semantic cut-elimination and the finite model property. Given our constructive and mechanised setting, all these results now bear executable algorithms. We expect that our methods used for mechanising cut-elimination and decidability also extend to other modal logics (and have verified this observation for the classical modal logic K).

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