[Revised entry by Valentin Goranko and Antje Rumberg on February 7, 2020. Changes to: Main text, Bibliography, 1st-order-relational.html, axiomatic-ctl.html, axiomatic-fotl-constant.html, axiomatic-fotl-free.html, axiomatic-fotl-varying.html, axiomatic-ltl.html, burgess-xu.html, interdefine-hs.html, notes.html, obtl.html, transition-semantics.html] The term Temporal Logic has been broadly used to cover all approaches to reasoning about time and temporal information, as well as their formal representation within a logical framework, and also more narrowly to refer specifically to the modal-logic type of approach introduced around 1960 by Arthur Prior under the name Tense Logic and subsequently developed further by many logicians and computer scientists. Applications of Temporal Logic include its use as a formalism for clarifying philosophical issues about time, as a framework within which to define the semantics of temporal expressions in natural language, as a language for encoding temporal knowledge in artificial intelligence, and as a tool for specification, formal analysis, and verification of the executions of computer programs and...



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