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This paper aims to explore the role of questions in communication in a group of cooperative rational agents. Using epistemic representation of questions proposed in [6] we employ the framework of public announcement logic to explore the flow of information in the process of asking and replying questions in a group. We show that some of the erotetic notions we introduce nicely correspond to the standard epistemic ones.
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Peliš, M., Majer, O. (2011). Logic of Questions and Public Announcements. In: Bezhanishvili, N., Löbner, S., Schwabe, K., Spada, L. (eds) Logic, Language, and Computation. TbiLLC 2009. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 6618. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-22303-7_9
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