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INQUISITIVE BISIMULATION.
- Source :
- Journal of Symbolic Logic; Mar2021, Vol. 86 Issue 1, p77-109, 33p
- Publication Year :
- 2021
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Abstract
- Inquisitive modal logic, InqML, is a generalisation of standard Kripke-style modal logic. In its epistemic incarnation, it extends standard epistemic logic to capture not just the information that agents have, but also the questions that they are interested in. Technically, InqML fits within the family of logics based on team semantics. From a model-theoretic perspective, it takes us a step in the direction of monadic second-order logic, as inquisitive modal operators involve quantification over sets of worlds. We introduce and investigate the natural notion of bisimulation equivalence in the setting of InqML. We compare the expressiveness of InqML and first-order logic in the context of relational structures with two sorts, one for worlds and one for information states, and characterise inquisitive modal logic as the bisimulation invariant fragment of first-order logic over various natural classes of two-sorted structures. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- FIRST-order logic
BISIMULATION
MODAL logic
EPISTEMIC logic
FINITE model theory
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00224812
- Volume :
- 86
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- Supplemental Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Symbolic Logic
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 151302073
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1017/jsl.2020.77