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We show that a rational agent with true and refinable knowledge of events cannot know if she knows everything or not. This epistemic limitation is not resolved by introspection about tautologies or by learning about new events.

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2026-04-17 Alex A. T. Rathke

According to Aumann's celebrated theorem, rational agents cannot agree to disagree. In other words, agents who once shared a common prior probability distribution and who have common knowledge about their posteriors cannot assign different…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2026-01-21 Matthew Leifer , Cristhiano Duarte

Until now, distributed algorithms for rational agents have assumed a-priori knowledge of $n$, the size of the network. This assumption is challenged here by proving how much a-priori knowledge is necessary for equilibrium in different…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2026-03-16 Yehuda Afek , Yishay Mansour , Shaked Rafaeli , Moshe Sulamy

Standard epistemic logics introduce a modal operator K to represent knowledge, but in doing so they presuppose the logical apparatus they aim to explain. By contrast, this paper explores how logic may be derived from the structure of…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Alexader V. Gheorghiu , Tao Gu

We introduce the concept of access-based intuitionistic knowledge which relies on the intuition that agent $i$ knows $\varphi$ if $i$ has found access to a proof of $\varphi$. Basic principles are distribution and factivity of knowledge as…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-02-25 Steffen Lewitzka

Common Knowledge Logic is meant to describe situations of the real world where a group of agents is involved. These agents share knowledge and make strong statements on the knowledge of the other agents (the so called \emph{common…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2007-12-20 Pierre Lescanne , Jérôme Puisségur

An increasing number of scientific experiments support the view of perception as Bayesian inference, which is rooted in Helmholtz's view of perception as unconscious inference. Recent study of logic presents a view of logical reasoning as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Hiroyuki Kido

Morris (1996, 1997) introduced preference-based definitions of knowledge and belief in standard state-space structures. This paper extends this preference-based approach to unawareness structures (Heifetz, Meier, and Schipper, 2006, 2008).…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2013-02-20 Burkhard C. Schipper

Substantial efforts have been made in developing various Decision Modeling formalisms, both from industry and academia. A challenging problem is that of expressing decision knowledge in the context of incomplete knowledge. In such contexts,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Đorđe Marković , Simon Vandevelde , Linde Vanbesien , Joost Vennekens , Marc Denecker

Human knowledge is subject to uncertainties, imprecision, incompleteness and inconsistencies. Moreover, the meaning of many everyday terms is dependent on the context. That poses a huge challenge for the Semantic Web. This paper introduces…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-09-25 Dave Raggett

The purpose of the paper is to introduce a new approach of planning called Assumption-Based Planning. This approach is a very interesting way to devise a planner based on a multi-agent system in which the production of a global shared plan…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-10-22 Damien Pellier , Humbert Fiorino

A natural way to represent beliefs and the process of updating beliefs is presented by Bayesian probability theory, where belief of an agent a in P can be interpreted as a considering that P is more probable than not P. This paper attempts…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2017-07-28 Jan van Eijck , Kai Li

Arbitrary public announcement logic (APAL) reasons about how the knowledge of a set of agents changes after true public announcements and after arbitrary announcements of true epistemic formulas. We consider a variant of arbitrary public…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Hans van Ditmarsch , Tim French , James Hales

Epistemic logics are a primary formalism for multi-agent systems but major reasoning tasks in such epistemic logics are intractable, which impedes applications of multi-agent epistemic logics in automatic planning. Knowledge compilation…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2018-06-29 Liangda Fang , Kewen Wang , Zhe Wang , Ximing Wen

This chapter presents probability logic as a rationality framework for human reasoning under uncertainty. Selected formal-normative aspects of probability logic are discussed in the light of experimental evidence. Specifically, probability…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Niki Pfeifer

User queries are often underspecified and may admit multiple valid interpretations. Rather than silently making assumptions about the user's intent, a helpful assistant should surface such ambiguity by asking a clarifying question. Doing so…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Jinyan Su , Claire Cardie

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

While reasoning in LLMs plays a natural role in math, code generation, and multi-hop factual questions, its effect on simple, single-hop factual questions remains unclear. Such questions do not require step-by-step logical decomposition,…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2026-03-11 Zorik Gekhman , Roee Aharoni , Eran Ofek , Mor Geva , Roi Reichart , Jonathan Herzig

Our understanding about things is conceptual. By stating that we reason about objects, it is in fact not the objects but concepts referring to them that we manipulate. Now, so long just as we acknowledge infinitely extending notions such as…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2015-04-21 Ryuta Arisaka

Existing approaches for generating human-aware agent behaviors have considered different measures of interpretability in isolation. Further, these measures have been studied under differing assumptions, thus precluding the possibility of…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-04-23 Sarath Sreedharan , Anagha Kulkarni , David E. Smith , Subbarao Kambhampati
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