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Logics for Nonomniscient Agents: An Axiomatic Approach

It has long been recognized that solving the logical omniscience problem requires using some kind of nonstandard possible worlds. While many such logics have been proposed, none has an obvious claim as the "right" logic to use to describe the reasoning of agents who are not logically omniscient. I show how to derive such nonstandard worlds as part of a representation of an agent's preferences. In this sense, the agent's logic is given the same basis as a utility function or subjective probability. As an illustration, I give conditions on preferences which imply that the agent's logic is a version of the logic of inconsistency proposed by Rescher and Brandom (1979).

Sprache
Englisch

Erschienen in
Series: Queen's Economics Department Working Paper ; No. 874

Klassifikation
Wirtschaft
Criteria for Decision-Making under Risk and Uncertainty
Thema
bounded rationality
decision theory
nonstandard logics

Ereignis
Geistige Schöpfung
(wer)
Lipman, Barton L.
Ereignis
Veröffentlichung
(wer)
Queen's University, Department of Economics
(wo)
Kingston (Ontario)
(wann)
1993

Handle
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  • Arbeitspapier

Beteiligte

  • Lipman, Barton L.
  • Queen's University, Department of Economics

Entstanden

  • 1993

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