Modal translation of substructural logics

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Abstract: In an article dating back in 1992, Kosta Dov{s}en initiated a project of modal translations in substructural logics, aiming at generalizing the well-known G"{o}del-McKinsey-Tarski translation of intuitionistic logic into {�f S4}. Dov{s}en's translation worked well for (variants of) {�f BCI} and stronger systems ({�f BCW}, {�f BCK}), but not for systems below {�f BCI}. Dropping structural rules results in logic systems without distribution. In this article, we show, via translation, that every substructural (indeed, every non-distributive) logic is a fragment of a corresponding sorted, residuated (multi) modal logic. At the conceptual and philosophical level, the translation provides a classical interpretation of the meaning of the logical operators of various non-distributive propositional calculi. Technically, it allows for an effortless transfer of results, such as compactness, L"{o}wenheim-Skolem property and decidability.




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