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Attainable Knowledge and Omniscience

Logic in Computer Science 2021-06-23 v2

Abstract

The paper investigates an evidence-based semantics for epistemic logics. It is shown that the properties of knowledge obtained from a potentially infinite body of evidence are described by modal logic S5. At the same time, the properties of knowledge obtained from only a finite subset of this body are described by modal logic S4. The main technical result is a sound and complete bi-modal logical system that describes properties of these two modalities and their interplay.

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@article{arxiv.1705.10760,
  title  = {Attainable Knowledge and Omniscience},
  author = {Pavel Naumov and Jia Tao},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1705.10760},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

In Proceedings TARK 2021, arXiv:2106.10886

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