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Experts do not always feel very, comfortable when they have to give precise numerical estimations of certainty degrees. In this paper we present a qualitative approach which allows for attaching partially ordered symbolic grades to logical…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-03-25 Philippe Chatalic , Christine Froidevaux

Rational speakers are supposed to know what they know and what they do not know, and to generate expressions matching the strength of evidence. In contrast, it is still a challenge for current large language models to generate corresponding…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-06-03 Meng Li , Michael Vrazitulis , David Schlangen

Temporal epistemic logic is a well-established framework for expressing agents knowledge and how it evolves over time. Within language-based security these are central issues, for instance in the context of declassification. We propose to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2012-09-03 Musard Balliu , Mads Dam , Gurvan Le Guernic

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

Logical frameworks are successful in modeling proof systems. Recently, CoLF extended the logical framework LF to support higher-order rational terms that enable adequate encoding of circular objects and derivations. In this paper, we…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-12-12 Zhibo Chen

This paper introduces epistemic graphs as a generalization of the epistemic approach to probabilistic argumentation. In these graphs, an argument can be believed or disbelieved up to a given degree, thus providing a more fine--grained…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2020-01-15 Anthony Hunter , Sylwia Polberg , Matthias Thimm

We study the satisfiability problem for a modal logic expressing knowing-how assertions, which captures an agent's ability to achieve a given goal under the standard semantics based on linear plans. Our main result shows that satisfiability…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Carlos Areces , Pablo Barceló , Valentin Cassano , Pablo F. Castro , Stéphane Demri , Raul Fervari

Representations are essential to mathematically model phenomena, but there are many options available. While each of those options provides useful properties with which to solve problems related to the phenomena in study, comparing results…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Luke Bayzid , Alexandre Madeira , Manuel A. Martins

Model theoretic results such as Characterization and Definability give important information about different logics. It is well known that the proofs of those results for several modal logics have, somehow, the same 'taste'. A general proof…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2010-11-23 Facundo Carreiro

I introduce modal group theory, in which we study the category of all groups, considering embeddability as providing a notion of modal possibility. Using HNN extensions and Britton's lemma, I demonstrate that the modal language of groups is…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-15 Wojciech Aleksander Wołoszyn

This paper develops a comprehensive framework for artificial intelligence systems that operate under strict epistemic constraints, moving beyond stochastic language prediction to support structured reasoning, propositional commitment, and…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-06-24 Craig Steven Wright

Dynamic Epistemic Logic (DEL) provides a framework for epistemic planning that is capable of representing non-deterministic actions, partial observability, higher-order knowledge and both factual and epistemic change. The high expressivity…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-07-31 Alessandro Burigana , Paolo Felli , Marco Montali

The fuzzy modality `probably` is interpreted over probabilistic type spaces by taking expected truth values. The arising probabilistic fuzzy description logic is invariant under probabilistic bisimilarity; more informatively, it is…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-06-05 Paul Wild , Lutz Schröder , Dirk Pattinson , Barbara König

The primary goal of this paper is to recast the semantics of modal logic, and dynamic epistemic logic (DEL) in particular, in category-theoretic terms. We first review the category of relations and categories of Kripke frames, with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Kohei Kishida

The unification problem in a propositional logic is to determine, given a formula F, whether there exists a substitution s such that s(F) is in that logic. In that case, s is a unifier of F. When a unifiable formula has minimal complete…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-04-20 Philippe Balbiani , Çiğdem Gencer , Maryam Rostamigiv , Tinko Tinchev

In this paper we introduce Epistemic Strategy Logic (ESL), an extension of Strategy Logic with modal operators for individual knowledge. This enhanced framework allows us to represent explicitly and to reason about the knowledge agents have…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2014-04-04 Francesco Belardinelli

Separation logic is a concise method for specifying programs that manipulate dynamically allocated storage. Partially inspired by separation logic, Implicit Dynamic Frames has recently been proposed, aiming at first-order tool support. In…

Programming Languages · Computer Science 2015-07-01 Matthew J. Parkinson , Alexander J. Summers

The intuitive notion of evidence has both semantic and syntactic features. In this paper, we develop an {\em evidence logic} for epistemic agents faced with possibly contradictory evidence from different sources. The logic is based on a…

Logic · Mathematics 2013-07-05 Johan van Benthem , David Fernández-Duque , Eric Pacuit

Despite the fact that beliefs are mental states that cannot be directly observed, humans talk about each others' beliefs on a regular basis, often using rich compositional language to describe what others think and know. What explains this…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-07-10 Lance Ying , Tan Zhi-Xuan , Lionel Wong , Vikash Mansinghka , Joshua Tenenbaum

We rely on the strength of linguistic and philosophical perspectives in constructing a framework that offers a unified explanation for presuppositions and existential commitment. We use a rich ontology and a set of methodological principles…

cmp-lg · Computer Science 2008-02-03 Daniel Marcu , Graeme Hirst