Imagine the possibilities: information without overload

Information is often modelled as a set of relevant possibilities, treated as logically possible worlds. However, this has the unintuitive consequence that the logical consequences of an agent's information cannot be informative for that agent. There are many scenarios in which such consequences...

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Main Author: Jago, Mark
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Published: 2006
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description Information is often modelled as a set of relevant possibilities, treated as logically possible worlds. However, this has the unintuitive consequence that the logical consequences of an agent's information cannot be informative for that agent. There are many scenarios in which such consequences are clearly informative for the agent in question. Attempts to weaken the logic underlying each possible world are misguided. Instead, I provide a genuinely psychological notion of epistemic possibility and show how it can be captured in a formal model, which I call a fan. I then show how to use fans to build formal models of being informed, as well as knowledge, belief and information update.
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spelling nottingham-3842020-05-04T20:29:33Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/384/ Imagine the possibilities: information without overload Jago, Mark Information is often modelled as a set of relevant possibilities, treated as logically possible worlds. However, this has the unintuitive consequence that the logical consequences of an agent's information cannot be informative for that agent. There are many scenarios in which such consequences are clearly informative for the agent in question. Attempts to weaken the logic underlying each possible world are misguided. Instead, I provide a genuinely psychological notion of epistemic possibility and show how it can be captured in a formal model, which I call a fan. I then show how to use fans to build formal models of being informed, as well as knowledge, belief and information update. 2006-04 Article NonPeerReviewed Jago, Mark (2006) Imagine the possibilities: information without overload. Logique & Analyse, 49 (196). pp. 345-370. Epistemic possibility information update semantics resourse bounded agents bounded rationality information overload logical omniscience http://virthost.vub.ac.be/lnaweb/ojs/index.php/LogiqueEtAnalyse/article/view/1645
spellingShingle Epistemic possibility
information
update semantics
resourse bounded agents
bounded rationality
information overload
logical omniscience
Jago, Mark
Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title_full Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title_fullStr Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title_full_unstemmed Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title_short Imagine the possibilities: information without overload
title_sort imagine the possibilities: information without overload
topic Epistemic possibility
information
update semantics
resourse bounded agents
bounded rationality
information overload
logical omniscience
url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/384/
https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/384/