Aldo Antonelli’s last paper

Aldo Antonelli’s last paper, “Completeness and Decidability of General First-Order Logic (with a Detour Through the Guarded Fragment)” is now out in the most recent issue of the Journal of Philosophical Logic.

This paper investigates the “general” semantics for first-order logic introduced to Antonelli (Review of Symbolic Logic 6(4), 637–58, 2013): a sound and complete axiom system is given, and the satisfiability problem for the general semantics is reduced to the satisfiability of formulas in the Guarded Fragment of Andréka et al. (Journal of Philosophical Logic 27(3):217–274, 1998), thereby showing the former decidable. A truth-tree method is presented in the Appendix.

It is published together with a note on it by Hajnal Andréka, Johan van Benthem, and István Németi in the same issue.

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