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Modal dependence logics are modal logics defined on the basis of team semantics and have the downward closure property. In this paper, we introduce sound and complete deduction systems for the major modal dependence logics, especially those…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-12-19 Fan Yang

Recent ideas about epistemic modals and indicative conditionals in formal semantics have significant overlap with ideas in modal logic and dynamic epistemic logic. The purpose of this paper is to show how greater interaction between formal…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-07 Wesley H. Holliday , Thomas F. Icard

Recently there have been numerous proposed solutions to the problem of logical omniscience in doxastic and epistemic logic. Though these solutions display an impressive breadth of subtlety and motivation, the crux of these approaches seems…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-05-25 Jonathan J. Mize

We define a new type of proof formalism for multi-agent modal logics with S5-type modalities. This novel formalism combines the features of hypersequents to represent S5 modalities with nested sequents to represent the T-like modality…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-05-30 Marta Bílková , Wesley Fussner , Roman Kuznets

We investigate algebraic and topological semantics of the modal logic S4CI and obtain strong completeness of the given system in the case of local semantic consequence relations. In addition, we consider an extension of the logic S4CI with…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-06-04 Daniyar Shamkanov

There are (at least) four ways that an agent can acquire information concerning the state of the universe: via observation, control, prediction, or via retrodiction, i.e., memory. Each of these four ways of acquiring information seems to…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2018-06-29 David Wolpert

Quantified propositional intuitionistic logic is obtained from propositional intuitionistic logic by adding quantifiers \forall p, \exists p over propositions. In the context of Kripke semantics, a proposition is a subset of the worlds in a…

Logic · Mathematics 2015-04-21 Richard Zach

Recent years witnessed a growing interest in non-standard epistemic logics of knowing whether, knowing how, knowing what, knowing why and so on. The new epistemic modalities introduced in those logics all share, in their semantics, the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Yanjing Wang

In recent work, Stalnaker proposes a logical framework in which belief is realized as a weakened form of knowledge. Building on Stalnaker's core insights, and using frameworks developed in previous work by Bjorndahl and Baltag et al., we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-11-25 Adam Bjorndahl , Aybüke Özgün

The paper introduces a basic logic of knowledge and abduction by extending Levesque logic of only-knowing with an abduction modal operator defined via the combination of basic epistemic concepts. The upshot is an alternative approach to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-01-09 Sanderson Molick , Vaishak Belle

A fundamental question asked in modal logic is whether a given theory is consistent. But consistent with what? A typical way to address this question identifies a choice of background knowledge axioms (say, S4, D, etc.) and then shows the…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-07-12 Samuel Allen Alexander , Arthur Paul Pedersen

In recent work, Stalnaker proposes a logical framework in which belief is realized as a weakened form of knowledge. Building on Stalnaker's core insights, and using frameworks developed by Bjorndahl and Baltag et al., we employ topological…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-08-01 Adam Bjorndahl , Aybüke Özgün

In this paper, we delve into the study of epistemic logics, interpreted through similarity models based on weighted graphs. We explore eight languages that extend the traditional epistemic language by incorporating modalities of common,…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-03 Xiaolong Liang , Yì N. Wáng

Propositional term modal logic is interpreted over Kripke structures with unboundedly many accessibility relations and hence the syntax admits variables indexing modalities and quantification over them. This logic is undecidable, and we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-01-01 Anantha Padmanabha , R Ramanujam

We present a type of epistemic logics that encapsulates both the dynamics of acquiring knowledge (knowing) and losing information (forgetting), alongside the integration of group knowledge concepts. Our approach is underpinned by a system…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-10-31 Xiaolong Liang , Yì N. Wáng

We introduce a modal logic for describing statistical knowledge, which we call statistical epistemic logic. We propose a Kripke model dealing with probability distributions and stochastic assignments, and show a stochastic semantics for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-19 Yusuke Kawamoto

In this paper, we present an alternative interpretation of propositional inquisitive logic as an epistemic logic of knowing how. In our setting, an inquisitive logic formula $\alpha$ being supported by a state is formalized as "knowing how…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-06-06 Haoyu Wang , Yanjing Wang , Yunsong Wang

We study knowable informational dependence between empirical questions, modeled as continuous functional dependence between variables in a topological setting. We also investigate epistemic independence in topological terms and show that it…

Logic · Mathematics 2024-01-17 Alexandru Baltag , Johan van Benthem

This paper is a mathematical investigation on Epstein semantics. One of the main tools of the present paper is the model-theoretic S-set construction introduced in (Krawczyk 2022). We use it to prove several results: 1) that each Epstein…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-06-09 Krzysztof A. Krawczyk

Logics for reasoning about knowledge and actions have seen many applications in various domains of multi-agent systems, including epistemic planning. Change of knowledge based on observations about the surroundings forms a key aspect in…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-08-14 Avijeet Ghosh , Sujata Ghosh , François Schwarzentruber