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A simple logic for reasoning about incomplete knowledge

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The semantics of modal logics for reasoning about belief or knowledge is often described in terms of accessibility relations, which is too expressive to account for mere epistemic states of an agent. This paper proposes a simple logic whose atoms express epistemic attitudes about formulae expressed in another basic propositional language, and that allows for conjunctions, disjunctions and negations of belief or knowledge statements. It allows an agent to reason about what is known about the beliefs held by another agent. This simple epistemic logic borrows its syntax and axioms from the modal logic KD. It uses only a fragment of the S5 language, which makes it a two-tiered propositional logic rather than as an extension thereof. Its semantics is given in terms of epistemic states understood as subsets of mutually exclusive propositional interpretations. Our approach offers a logical grounding to uncertainty theories like possibility theory and belief functions. In fact, we define the most basic logic for possibility theory as shown by a completeness proof that does not rely on accessibility relations.
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hal-01119806 , version 1 (24-02-2015)

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Mohua Banerjee, Didier Dubois. A simple logic for reasoning about incomplete knowledge. Accounting Horizons, 2014, vol. 55 (n° 2), pp. 639-653. ⟨10.1016/j.ijar.2013.11.003⟩. ⟨hal-01119806⟩
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