Completeness of First-Order Bi-Intuitionistic Logic
Computer Science Logic 2025, 2025
Abstract
We provide a succinct and verified completeness proof for first-order bi-intuitionistic logic, relative to constant domain Kripke semantics. By doing so, we make up for the almost-50-year-old substantial mistakes in Rauszer’s foundational work, detected but unresolved by Shillito two years ago. Moreover, an even earlier but historically neglected proof by Klemke has been found to contain at least local errors by Olkhovikov and Badia, that remained unfixed due to the technical complexity of Klemke’s argument. To resolve this unclear situation once and for all, we give a succinct completeness proof, based on and dualising a standard proof for constant domain intuitionistic logic, and verify our constructions using the Coq proof assistant to guarantee correctness.
Recommended citation: Kirst, Dominik and Shillito, Ian. (2025). "Completeness of First-Order Bi-Intuitionistic Logic" Computer Science Logic 2025.
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