Structural completeness in propositional logics of dependence

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Abstract: In this paper we prove that three of the main propositional logics of dependence (including propositional dependence logic and inquisitive logic), none of which is structural, are structurally complete with respect to a class of substitutions under which the logics are closed. We obtain an analogues result with respect to stable substitutions, for the negative variants of some well-known intermediate logics, which are intermediate theories that are closely related to inquisitive logic.


The paper studies three logics of dependence: \textsf{PD}, \textsf{InqL} and \textsf{PT}. None of these logics is closed under uniform substitutions, but they are closed under substitutions of a particular type: flat substitutions which map propositional variables to flat formulas. A flat formula is a classical formula satisfying the condition \(X \models \varphi \Leftrightarrow \forall v, \{v\} \models \varphi\). In a natural way, admissibility of a rule can be defined in terms of flat substitutions. It is proven that all three aforementioned logics are closed and structurally complete relative to flat substitutions.











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