For the -modality we know many readings. We have treated in this
paper the interpretation of
as the provability predicate. But
also other readings are possible. The most prominent (and also the
original) reading is that of necessity. Modalities can often have
various interpretations. (Think of epistemic logic, temporal logic,
etc. ) It is always an interesting venture to try to vary the
interpretation of a logic in a certain way to then study the purport
of the logic under this new interpretation. One obvious variation is
to go back to the original inspiration for the semantics of
interpretability logics, namely to read the -modality as a
conditional in the setting of entailment logics as in Veltman's
dissertation. See [Vel85]. As far as we know this has never
been done.
Understanding the relation between Veltman semantics and the
arithmetical properties.
The Veltman semantics have proved to be a
very fruitful tool. However, there is no clear understanding about
what is the precise relation between Veltman frames and the
arithmetics. Neither is there a clear intuitive way of thinking about
frame conditions in terms of the intended arithmetic. It might be
interesting to investigate if such a clear connection can be
described.
Understanding why certain principles are not complete w.r.t. their
corresponding class of characteristic frames.
When the principle
P0 was found, it was immediately conjectured to be modally
incomplete. The grounds for this conjecture were the similarities with
an earlier investigated modally incomplete principle
,
and a general intuition. It might be interesting to try to capture
this intuition by a general theorem about incompleteness.
Performing a schematic enclosure of
as proposed.
In paragraph
6.2 a general approach is proposed for the enclosure of
.
As far as we know, such a systematic approach has not yet been
executed. Within this program various other questions fit in well,
like for example can one say something about nice principles in the
meet of
and
?