“To know is to analyze” or How to Know without the Truth

Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique

سخن سردبیر Editorial مجله دانشگاه علوم پزشکی رفسنجان دوره هفدهم، فروردین 1398، 2-1             آشنایی با روش گروه صوری Getting to Know the Nominal Group Technique   محسن رضائیان[1]،[2]   M. Rezaeian   در سخن سردبیری بهمن ماه سال گذشته به روش دلفی پرداخته و اشاره کردیم که این روش، یکی از راه‌های دست‌یابی به توافق پیرامون یک موضوع می‌باشد [1]. هدف از نگارش این سخن سردبیری، پرداخت...

To Know is to Know the Value of a Variable

We develop an epistemic logic that can express knowledge of a dependency between variables (or complex terms). An epistemic dependency formula K1n a t says that agent a knows the value of term t conditional on being given the values of terms t1, ..., tn. We add dynamic operators [!t1, . . . , tn] , capturing the e↵ect of publicly (and simultaneously) announcing the values of terms t1, . . . , t...

To know or not to know? How looking at payoffs signals selfish behavior

Interpreting others’ actions in a correct way is fundamental for healthy and successful social relationships. In daily life, subjects often face a social dilemma in two stages. In Stage 1, they recognize the social dilemma structure of the decision problem at hand (a tension between personal interest and collective interest); in Stage 2, they have to choose between gathering additional informat...

Do We Know What We Do not Know? A Response to Celine Bonnet

Everything is Knowable – How to Get to Know

Fitch showed that not every true proposition can be known in due time; in other words, that not every proposition is knowable. Moore showed that certain propositions cannot be consistently believed. A more recent dynamic phrasing of Moore-sentences is that not all propositions are known after their announcement, i.e., not every proposition is successful. Fitch’s and Moore’s results are related,...