Abstract
In 1988 Mark A. Brown published a paper [1] in which he proposed a kind of generalized modal logic intended to model certain concepts central to the logic of action, notably that of ability. The following year saw the publication of a paper [5] by the present author in which he tried to extend dynamic logic to somewhat similar purposes. It is not surprising that there should be a close relationship between the modellings in the two papers. The analysis given in this paper throws some light on that relationship.
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Segerberg, K. (1997). Delta Logic and Brown’s Logic of Ability. In: Ejerhed, E., Lindström, S. (eds) Logic, Action and Cognition. Trends in Logic, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5524-3_2
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