Attainable Knowledge and Omniscience

Pavel Naumov
(King's College)
Jia Tao
(Lafayette College)

The paper investigates an evidence-based semantics for epistemic logics. It is shown that the properties of knowledge obtained from a potentially infinite body of evidence are described by modal logic S5. At the same time, the properties of knowledge obtained from only a finite subset of this body are described by modal logic S4. The main technical result is a sound and complete bi-modal logical system that describes properties of these two modalities and their interplay.

In Joseph Halpern and Andrés Perea: Proceedings Eighteenth Conference on Theoretical Aspects of Rationality and Knowledge (TARK 2021), Beijing, China, June 25-27, 2021, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science 335, pp. 251–265.
Published: 22nd June 2021.

ArXived at: https://dx.doi.org/10.4204/EPTCS.335.24 bibtex PDF
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