An Inductive Construction for Many-Valued Coalgebraic Modal Logic

Abstract

In this paper, we present an abstract framework of many-valued modal logic with the interpretation of atomic propositions and modal operators as predicate lifting over coalgebras for an endofunctor on the category of sets. It generalizes Pattinson’s stratification method for colagebraic modal logic to the many-valued setting. In contrast to standard techniques of canonical model construction and filtration, this method employs an induction principle to prove the soundness, completeness, and finite model property of the logic. As a consequence, we can lift a restriction on the previous approach [1] that requires the underlying language must have the expressive power to internalize the meta-level truth valuation operations.