An Algebraic Approach to Propositional Fuzzy Logic

  • Authors:
  • Franco Montagna

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Matematica, Università di Siena, Via del Capitano 15, 53100 Siena, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Logic, Language and Information
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

We investigate the variety corresponding to a logic (introduced in Esteva and Godo, 1998, and called ŁΠ there),which is the combination of Łukasiewicz Logic and ProductLogic, and in which Gödel Logic is interpretable. We present an alternative (and slightly simpler) axiomatization of such variety. We also investigate the variety, called the variety of ŁΠ½ algebras, corresponding to the logic obtained from ŁΠ by the adding of a constant and of a defining axiom for one half.We also connect ŁΠ½ algebras with structures, called f-semifields, arising from the theory oflattice-ordered rings, and prove that every ŁΠ½ algebra \cal A can be regarded as a structure whose domain is the interval [0, 1] of an f-semifield \cal F, and whoseoperations are the truncations of the operations of \cal F to [0, 1]. We prove that such a structure \cal Fis uniquely determined by \cal A up to isomorphism, and we establish an equivalence between the category of ŁΠ½ algebras and that of f-semifields.