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Takeuti and Titani have introduced and investigated a logic they called intuitionistic fuzzy logic. This logic is characterized as the first-order Gödel logic based on the truth value set [0, 1]. The logic is known to be axiomatizable, but no deduction system amenable to prooftheoretic, and hence, computational treatment, has been known. Such a system is presented here, based on previous work on hypersequent calculi for propositional Gödel logics by Avron. It is shown that the system is sound and complete, and allows cut-elimination. A question by Takano regarding the eliminability of the Takeuti-Titani density rule is answered affirmatively.

A new cut-elimination method for Gentzen's LK is defined. First cut-elimination is generalized to the problem of redundancy-elimination. Then the elimination of redundancy in LK-proofs is performed by a resolution method in the following way. A set of clauses C is assigned to an LK-proof ψ and it is shown that C is always unsatisfiable. A resolution refutation of C then serves as a skeleton of an LK-proof ψ with atomic cuts; ψ can be constructed from the resolution proof and ψ by a projection method. In the final step the atomic cuts are eliminated and a cut-free proof is obtained. The complexity of the method is analyzed and it is shown that a non-elementary speed-up over Gentzen's method can be achieved. Finally an application to automated deduction is presented: it is demonstrated how informal proofs (containing pseudo-cuts) can be transformed into formal ones by the method of redundancy-elimination; moreover, the method can even be used to transform incorrect proofs into correct ones.

First-order Gödel logics are a family of finite-or infinite-valued logics where the sets of truth values V are closed subsets of [0, 1] containing both 0 and 1. Different such sets V in general determine different Gödel logics G V (sets of those formulas which evaluate to 1 in every interpretation into V ). It is shown that G V is axiomatizable iff V is finite, V is uncountable with 0 isolated in V , or every neighborhood of 0 in V is uncountable. Complete axiomatizations for each of these cases are given. The r.e. prenex, negation-free, and existential fragments of all first-order Gödel logics are also characterized.

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Hypersequent calculi arise by generalizing standard sequent calculi to refer to whole contexts of sequents instead of single sequents. We present a number of results using hypersequents to obtain a Gentzen-style characterization for the family of Gödel logics. We first describe analytic calculi for propositional finite and infinite-valued Gödel logics. We then show that the framework of hypersequents allows one to move straightforwardly from the propositional level to first-order as well as propositional quantification. A certain type of modalities, enhancing the expressive power of Gödel logic, is also considered.

A construction principle for natural deduction systems for arbitrary finitely-many-valued first order logics is exhibited. These systems are systematically obtained from sequent calculi, which in turn can be automatically extracted from the truth tables of the logics under consideration. Soundness and cut-free completeness of these sequent calculi translate into soundness, completeness and normal form theorems for the natural deduction systems.