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We develop a logical framework for reasoning about knowledge and evidence in which the agent may be uncertain about how to interpret their evidence. Rather than representing an evidential state as a fixed subset of the state space, our…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2019-07-23 Adam Bjorndahl , Aybüke Özgün

This work presents a novel systematic methodology to analyse the capabilities and limitations of Large Language Models (LLMs) with feedback from a formal inference engine, on logic theory induction. The analysis is complexity-graded w.r.t.…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-01-15 João Pedro Gandarela , Danilo S. Carvalho , André Freitas

This work presents a formalized proof of modal completeness for G\"odel-L\"ob provability logic (GL) in the HOL Light theorem prover. We describe the code we developed, and discuss some details of our implementation, focusing on our choices…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-10-10 Marco Maggesi , Cosimo Perini Brogi

This work builds upon a well-established research tradition on modal logics of awareness. One of its aims is to export tools and techniques to other areas within modal logic. To this end, we illustrate a number of significant bridges with…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2023-07-12 Carlo Proietti , Fernando R. Velázquez-Quesada , Antonio Yuste-Ginel

We compare different epistemic notions in the presence of awareness of propositional variables: the logics of implicit knowledge (in which explicit knowledge is definable), explicit knowledge, and speculative knowledge. Different notions of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2013-10-29 Hans van Ditmarsch , Tim French , Fernando R. Velazquez-Quesada , Yi N. Wang

We define a class of formal systems inspired by Prawitz's theory of grounds. The latter is a semantics that aims at accounting for epistemic grounding, namely, at explaining why and how deductively valid inferences have the power to…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-01-22 Antonio Piccolomini d'Aragona

We present an automated verification of the well-known modal logic cube in Isabelle/HOL, in which we prove the inclusion relations between the cube's logics using automated reasoning tools. Prior work addresses this problem but without…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2015-08-03 Christoph Benzmüller , Maximilian Claus , Nik Sultana

Justification logics are special kinds of modal logics which provide a framework for reasoning about epistemic justifications. For this, they extend classical boolean propositional logic by a family of necessity-style modal operators "t:",…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-09-07 Nicholas Pischke

In recent years, the logic of questions and dependencies has been investigated in the closely related frameworks of inquisitive logic and dependence logic. These investigations have assumed classical logic as the background logic of…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Ivano Ciardelli , Rosalie Iemhoff , Fan Yang

We revisit the issue of connections between two leading formalisms in nonmonotonic reasoning: autoepistemic logic and default logic. For each logic we develop a comprehensive semantic framework based on the notion of a belief pair. The set…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Marc Denecker , Victor W. Marek , Miroslaw Truszczynski

As an experiment to the application of proof assistant for logic research, we formalize the model and proof system for multi-agent modal logic S5 with PAL-style dynamic modality in Lean theorem prover. We provide a formal proof for the…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Jiatu Li

Intuitionistic grammar logics fuse constructive and multi-modal reasoning while permitting the use of converse modalities, serving as a generalization of standard intuitionistic modal logics. In this paper, we provide definitions of these…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-04 Tim S. Lyon

There has been a longstanding dispute over which formalism is the best for representing knowledge in AI. The well-known "declarative vs. procedural controversy" is concerned with the choice of utilizing declarations or procedures as the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-31 Heng Zhang , Guifei Jiang , Donghui Quan

We study implicational formulas in the context of proof complexity of intuitionistic propositional logic (IPC). On the one hand, we give an efficient transformation of tautologies to implicational tautologies that preserves the lengths of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2016-10-27 Emil Jeřábek

We report on the mechanization of (preference-based) conditional normative reasoning. Our focus is on Aqvist's system E for conditional obligation, and its extensions. Our mechanization is achieved via a shallow semantical embedding in…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2024-07-09 Xavier Parent , Christoph Benzmüller

The tension between deduction and induction is perhaps the most fundamental issue in areas such as philosophy, cognition and artificial intelligence. In an influential paper, Valiant recognised that the challenge of learning should be…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-06-12 Ionela G. Mocanu , Vaishak Belle , Brendan Juba

The definition is a common form of human expert knowledge, a building block of formal science and mathematics, a foundation for database theory and is supported in various forms in many knowledge representation and formal specification…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-02-16 Marc Denecker , Bart Bogaerts , Joost Vennekens

This article provides an algebraic study of intermediate inquisitive and dependence logics. While these logics are usually investigated using team semantics, here we introduce an alternative algebraic semantics and we prove it is complete…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-03-21 Davide Emilio Quadrellaro

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

Non-additive uncertainty theories, typically possibility theory, belief functions and imprecise probabilities share a common feature with modal logic: the duality properties between possibility and necessity measures, belief and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-03-24 Didier Dubois , Lluis Godo , Henri Prade