Title
An epistemic logic with hypotheses
Abstract
We introduce a variant of the standard epistemic logic S5 for reasoning about knowledge under hypotheses or background assumptions. The modal operator of necessity expressing what is known is parameterised with a hypothesis. The operator can be described as relative necessity, a notion already used by Chellas to describe conditionality. In fact, the parameterised box resembles a conditional operator and it turns out that our logic is a variant of Chellas' Conditional Logic. We present an axiomatisation of the logic and show that it bears the same expressivity and computational complexity as S5. Then we consider the extension of our logic with operators for distributed knowledge and show how it can be used to represent knowledge of agents whose epistemic capacity corresponds to any system between S4 and S5.
Year
DOI
Venue
2011
10.1007/978-3-642-24130-7_21
LORI
Keywords
Field
DocType
standard epistemic logic,background assumption,conditional logic,epistemic capacity corresponds,relative necessity,modal operator,conditional operator,computational complexity,parameterised box,epistemic logic,hypotheses,knowledge
Epistemic modal logic,Computational logic,Strict conditional,Autoepistemic logic,Normal modal logic,Multimodal logic,Algorithm,Theoretical computer science,Philosophy of logic,Mathematics,Dynamic logic (modal logic)
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
6953
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
10
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Levan Uridia184.62
Dirk Walther201.69