Moore's Paradox and the logic of belief
Logic in Computer Science
2020-06-23 v1 Artificial Intelligence
Abstract
Moores Paradox is a test case for any formal theory of belief. In Knowledge and Belief, Hintikka developed a multimodal logic for statements that express sentences containing the epistemic notions of knowledge and belief. His account purports to offer an explanation of the paradox. In this paper I argue that Hintikkas interpretation of one of the doxastic operators is philosophically problematic and leads to an unnecessarily strong logical system. I offer a weaker alternative that captures in a more accurate way our logical intuitions about the notion of belief without sacrificing the possibility of providing an explanation for problematic cases such as Moores Paradox.
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@article{arxiv.2006.11363,
title = {Moore's Paradox and the logic of belief},
author = {Andrés Páez},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2006.11363},
year = {2020}
}