Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-10-18Four translations, and what each keeps or breaks: conditionals under Kratzer's restrictor, modal logic inside a probability space, consistency strength inside a reflection calculus, and Gödel's second theorem under a change of numberingFour papers from 12–16 October 2026 that each move a formal system into a second structure — conditionals into Kratzer's restrictor, modal logic into a probability space, consistency strength into a reflection calculus, arithmetic syntax into a Gödel numbering — with what each translation keeps or breaks, and what the week's citation counts can and cannot show.
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-10-11Four papers on modality below classical logic: trivalent conditionals get a probability theory, non-deterministic four-valued tables reach S0.5, the Nelson logics get a Dunn-style modality, and quantum logic gets a strict implicationFour papers from 5–9 October 2026 that carry a modal or conditional operator onto a non-classical value space: trivalent conditionals with a matching probability theory, non-deterministic four-valued tables for normal and very weak modal logics, a Dunn-style modality for the generalised Nelson logics, and a strict implication that internalizes entailment inside quantum modal logic.2
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-10-04Four papers on pinning a modal logic down: Cheq has no finite axiom system, uncountably many congruential logics have no neighborhood frame, closure semantics reaches the least modal logic, and dynamic epistemic logic gets a cut-free calculusFour papers from 28 September – 2 October 2026 on which presentations a modal logic can be given: a congruential family with no neighborhood frame that validates it, the intermediate logic Cheq without a finite axiom system, closure semantics for weak modal logics down to the least system, and a cut-free hypersequent calculus for dynamic epistemic logic.2
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-09-27One question, four verdicts: IS4 is decidable, the translation from FO³ into the calculus of relations cannot be made small, free groups have no model companion, and groups of exponent 3 doFour preprints from 21–25 September 2026 on what a theory can be given: a decision procedure for the intuitionistic modal logics IS4 and IK4, an unavoidable exponential translation from three-variable logic into the calculus of relations, and opposite verdicts on model companions for free groups and for groups of exponent 3.2
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-09-20Four faces of correctness: a Strategy Logic with no axiomatization, repairable epsilon-derivations, a refuted Bayesian convergence theorem, and what a proof must beFour papers from 14–18 September 2026 on what a formal proof's checkability actually guarantees: Strategy Logic's missing axiomatization, epsilon-calculus repair for derivations that are wrong, a refuted convergence theorem from the Journal of Philosophical Logic, and the case for effective checking over polynomial-time checking.1
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-09-13Four limits of formal systems: Medvedev undecidability, non-elementary frames, forcing translations, and paraconsistent possibilityA source-led comparison of four 7–10 September 2026 preprints on Medvedev undecidability, non-elementary modal frames, quotient forcing semantics, and paraconsistent possibility measures, with citation movement treated as too immature to rank.
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-09-06Four tests for non-classical logic: S4 modalities, tense undecidability, proof complexity, and Beth companionsA source-led comparison of four 31 August–3 September 2026 papers on non-classical modality, tense-logical undecidability, intuitionistic proof complexity, and categorical companions, with citation movement treated as too immature to rank.
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-08-30Frame Definability, Esakia Duality, Jump Closure, and Higher-Order Truth: Four Logic Papers from 24–27 August 2026A source-led comparison of four 24–27 August preprints on modal valuation strength, constructive Esakia duality, Turing-jump closure, and higher-order intuitionistic truth, with citation movement treated as too immature to rank.2
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-08-23Gaps, intuitionistic frames, Scott continuity, internal truth: four logic papers from 17–20 August 2026A source-led comparison of four 17–20 August preprints on LETK+ probabilities, iS4h semantics, double-negation continuity, and internal truth in Reflective Grounded Arithmetic, with citation movement too immature to rank.2
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-08-16Orthomodular stability, predicate bundles, and Gödel's modal collapse: four August logic recordsA source-led roundup of four August logic records, comparing exactness in orthomodular lattices, graded predicate bundles, modal Kleene duality, and machine-checked claims about Gödel's modal collapse.22
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-08-09K3/LP, Heyting-valued modal logic, Gray's Elegy, and institutional facts: four August 2026 papersA close read of four papers published or submitted on 1–7 August 2026, comparing proof-theoretic semantics for K3/LP, exact reduction in Heyting-valued modal logic, Russellian intensional semantics, and a challenge to relativising institutional facts, while citation counts remain too immature to rank.
Formal Logic Trends Podcast2026-08-02Subreflexive consequence, forcing, lambda proofs, and adverb tableaux: four late-July logic papersFour papers published or submitted between 27 and 31 July make different inferential mechanisms explicit—from identity-free consequence and Boolean compatibility to lambda proof terms and adverb tableaux—while citation counts remain too young to rank them.