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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2023.5

Consistent Ultrafinitist Logic

Authors: Michał J. Gajda

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 303, 29th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2023)

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Ultrafinitism postulates that we can only compute on relatively short objects, and numbers beyond a certain value are not available. This approach would also forbid many forms of infinitary reasoning and allow removing certain paradoxes stemming from enumeration theorems. For a computational application of ultrafinitist logic, we need more than a proof system, but a logical framework to express both proofs, programs, and theorems in a single framework. We present its inference rules, reduction relation, and self-encoding to allow direct proving of the properties of ultrafinitist logic within itself. We also provide a justification why it can express all bounded Turing programs, and thus serve as a "logic of computability".

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Michał J. Gajda. Consistent Ultrafinitist Logic. In 29th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 303, pp. 5:1-5:20, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{gajda:LIPIcs.TYPES.2023.5,
  author =	{Gajda, Micha{\l} J.},
  title =	{{Consistent Ultrafinitist Logic}},
  booktitle =	{29th International Conference on Types for Proofs and Programs (TYPES 2023)},
  pages =	{5:1--5:20},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-332-4},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{303},
  editor =	{Kesner, Delia and Reyes, Eduardo Hermo and van den Berg, Benno},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2023.5},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-204833},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.TYPES.2023.5},
  annote =	{Keywords: ultrafinitism, bounded Turing completeness, logic of computability, decidable logic, explicit complexity, strict finitism}
}

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