A modal logic of information
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https://doi.org/10.12775/LLP.2012.003Keywords
information, epistemic logic, doxastic logic, Kripke model, completeness, dynamic logicAbstract
We consider modal epistemic and doxastic logics as intuitively inadequate logics of information, and we outline a modal system of the operator being informed that which avoids inconsistency with our intuitive concept of information. The system has modal structure of the normal modal logic K4, and is sound and complete on the class of all transitive frames. We compare this logic with Floridi’s KTB information logic, and we consider a possibility of extending our system to a dynamic logic.References
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