OJO: ¡note que la charla del lunes 14 fue aplazada al jueves 24!
David Miller, profesor de la Universidad de Warwick, visitará durante el mes de agosto el Departamento de Ingeniería Mecánica y Mecatrónica de la Universidad Nacional. Adicionalmente, dará una charla para el Seminario de Lógica (ojo: ¡esta vez en la Universidad Nacional!) el jueves 24 de agosto, a las 4 de la tarde.
Lugar: Salón 202, edificio 405.
Título: A Refined Geometry of Logic.
Resumen: In this talk I shall consider how the results of my paper (1984) may be extended from Boolean algebras to Brouwerian algebras. There I presented three axiomatic systems A, B, and C, for functions ∂ and µ defined on an algebra B, systems that characterize respectively the degree of dissimilarity of elements of B, a pseudometric on B, and an unnormalized measure on B. Since B and C are quite well known, the novelty of the paper lay in A, whose axioms, including a definition of µ in terms of ∂, are:
(A0) µ(b) = Df ∂(b,⊥)
(A1) ∂(a,c) + ∂(ϕa,b) ≥ ∂(ϕc,b)
(A2) a b c ⇒ ∂(a,c) = ∂(a,b) + ∂(b,c),
where in (A1), which is a scheme of axioms designed to generalize the usual law of the indiscernibility of identicals, the term ϕc is identical with the term ϕa except perhaps for containing c at one or more places where ϕa contains a. It was proved that A, B, and C are equivalent if the algebra B is assumed to be Boolean. The system A can fairly be regarded as stating the fundamental properties of a function ∂ that measures the distance between sentential contents. If we wish to consider not only sentences but (axiomatizable and unaxiomatizable) deductive theories, we need to move from Boolean to Brouwerian (co-Heyting) algebras. Here unfortunately the proof of the equivalence of the systems A and C falls apart (A is stronger than C). I shall try to modify A by sacrificing not (A1), its most characteristic axiom (scheme), but (A2), the principle of the additivity along chains of the pseudometric ∂. In the new system it is essential that the definition of ∂ in terms of µ should take the form
∂(a,c) = Df µ(a c)
rather than the usual form
∂(a,c) = Df µ(a + c) − µ(a · c).
The relation between the resulting geometry and its predecessor turns out to resemble in a superficial but intriguing manner the relation between Riemannian and Euclidean geometries of physical space. The modified system is demonstrably equivalent to the original system C for unnormalized measures.
Reference: Miller, D. W. (1984) ‘A Geometry of Logic’. In H. J. Skala, S. Termini, & E. Trillas, editors, Aspects of Vagueness, pp.91-104. Dordrecht: D. Reidel Publishing Company.