A Gödel Modal Logic Over Witnessed Models

Mauro Ferrari
(Dep. of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy)
Camillo Fiorentini
(Dep. of Computer Science, Università degli Studi di Milano, Milano, Italy)
Paolo Giardini
(Dep. of Theoretical and Applied Sciences, Università degli Studi dell'Insubria, Varese, Italy)
Ricardo Oscar Rodriguez
(UBA-FCEyN, Dep. De Computación, Buenos Aires, Argentina)

We introduce GW, a Gödel modal logic based on Kripke models in which the value of each modal formula is witnessed by an accessible world. This witnessed semantics eliminates the limit-based phenomena that preclude the finite model property in the usual Kripke semantics for Gödel modal logics, thereby yielding a more constructive semantic framework. We present a sound and complete refutation calculus for GW and design a terminating backward proof-search procedure with countermodel generation. As a direct consequence of this procedure, GW enjoys the finite model property.

In Marta Bílková, Malvin Gattinger, Iris van der Giessen, Marianna Girlando and Yanjing Wang: Proceedings of the Sixteenth International Conference on Advances in Modal Logic (AiML 2026), Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 29-06-2026, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 447, pp. 355–373.
Published: 29th June 2026.

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