We survey complexity results concerning a family of propositional many-valued logics. In particular, we shall address satisfiability and tautologousness problems for Há-jek's Basic Logic BL and for several of its schematic extensions. We shall review complexity bounds obtained from functional representation results, as well as techniques for dealing with non-trivial ordinal sums of continuous t-norms.
In the framework of propositional Lukasiewicz logic, a suitable notion of implicit definability, tailored to the intended real-valued semantics and referring to the elements of its domain, is introduced. Several variants of implicitly defining each of the rational elements in the standard semantics are explored, and based on that, a faithful interpretation of theories in Rational Pavelka logic in theories in Lukasiewicz logic is obtained. Some of these results were already presented in [12] as technical statements. A connection to the lack of (deductive) Beth property in Lukasiewicz logic is drawn. Moreover, while irrational elements of the standard semantics are not implicitly definable by finitary means, a parallel development is possible for them in the infinitary Lukasiewicz logic. As an application of definability of the rationals, it is shown how computational complexity results for Rational Pavelka logic can be obtained from analogous results for Lukasiewicz logic. The complexity of the definability notion itself is studied as well. Finally, we review the import of these results for the precision/vagueness discussion for fuzzy logic, and for the general standing of truth constants in Lukasiewicz logic.
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