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Logic of Questions and Public Announcements

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Logic, Language, and Computation (TbiLLC 2009)

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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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  1. Institute of Philosophy of the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, v.v.i., Jilská 1, 110 00, Prague 1, Czech Republic

    Michal Peliš & Ondrej Majer

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  1. Department of Computing, Imperial College London, 180 Queen’s Gate, SW7 2AZ, London, UK

    Nick Bezhanishvili

  2. Institute of Language and Information, Department of General Linguistics, Heinrich-Heine-University, Universitätsstraße 1, 40225, Düsseldorf, Germany

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  3. Zentrum für Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft, Schützenstraße 18, 10117, Berlin, Germany

    Kerstin Schwabe

  4. Dipartimento di Matematica, via Ponte don Melillo, 84084, Fisciano, (SA), Italy

    Luca Spada

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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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