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We present an implementation of an interactive theorem prover for the basic tense logic K t , and many of its extensions, using the generic proof assistant Isabelle. The novelty of the implementation is that we use a Display Logic formalism of K t as opposed to a traditional Gentzen system. The prover is intended to assist in meta-theoretical studies of tense logics rather than to be a fast theorem prover. Since Display Logic is a generic way to capture multi-modal logics, our implementation can be trivially extended to handle the multi-modal logics of “time”, “knowledge”, “intentions”, “desires” and “beliefs” which are used in Artificial Intelligence research.
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Dawson, J.E., Goré, R. (1998). A mechanisation of classical modal tense logics using isabelle. In: Antoniou, G., Slaney, J. (eds) Advanced Topics in Artificial Intelligence. AI 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1502. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg . https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0095045
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