Epistemic logic with partial grasp

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ID10812509
AuthorsFrancisca Silva (0000-0002-2855-1205, University of Lisbon, corresponding author)
Year2024
Volume204
Issue3
Publication date2024-08-29
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueSynthese (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0039-7857 • E-ISSN: 1573-0964
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media LLC (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1007/s11229-024-04738-1
OpenAlexW4401994021
LanguageEN
Citations received1
References cited29

We have to gain from recognizing a relation between epistemic agents and the parts of subject matters that play a role in their cognitive lives. I call this relation “grasping”. Namely, I zone in on one notion of having a partial grasp of a subject matter—that of agents grasping part of the subject matter that they are attending to—and characterize it. I propose that giving up the idealization that we fully grasp the subject matters we attend to allows one to more realistically characterize the epistemic life of agents. To show this, I propose an epistemic logic with partial grasp that has in mind considerations from first-order aboutness theory with the aim of avoiding certain forms of logical omniscience, and which provides an alternative to immanent closure (Yablo Aboutness, Princeton University Press, 2014)

Closure (psychology) · Cognitive science · Epistemic modal logic · Epistemology · GRASP · Metaphysics · Multimodal logic · Order (exchange) · Philosophy of language · Philosophy of science · Proposition · Relation (database) · Subject (documents) · Subject matter · Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science · Epistemology, Ethics, and Metaphysics · Logic, Reasoning, and Knowledge · Philosophy · Philosophy and Theoretical Science · Psychology

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