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A new language for epistemic logic is introduced in which the epistemic “x knows of \(x_{1}\ldots x_{n}\) that …”.
Analogously we can express “t knows of \(t_{1}\ldots t_{n}\) that …”, where \(t,t_{1}\ldots t_{n}\) are terms. An advantage of this approach is that we can quantify on the agents, “every y knows of \(x_{1}\ldots x_{n}\) that A” or “some expert knows of \(t_{1}\ldots t_{n}\) that A” can easily be expressed. The semantics we present for this language is a generalization of the transition semantics, called epistemic transition semantics in which the possible worlds are states of affairs compatible with the epistemic state of some agent. A calculus is presented and shown to be complete with respect to epistemic transition semantics.
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We also write \(\sigma (x_{i})\,\stackrel{a}{\rightarrowtail }\,\tau (x_{i})\qquad \,\mbox{ for }\,\,i = 1,\ldots,k\,\).
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Corsi, G., Tassi, G. (2014). A New Approach to Epistemic Logic. In: Weber, E., Wouters, D., Meheus, J. (eds) Logic, Reasoning, and Rationality. Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-9011-6_2
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