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THE EXPRESSIVITY OF FACTUAL CHANGE IN DYNAMIC EPISTEMIC LOGIC

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2013

LOUWE B. KUIJER*
Affiliation:
University of Groningen
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*FACULTY OF PHILOSOPHY, UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN OUDE BOTERINGESTRAAT 52 9712 GL GRONINGEN THE NETHERLANDS E-mail: l.b.kruijer@rug.nl

Abstract

A commonly used dynamic epistemic logic is one obtained by adding commonknowledge and public announcements to a basic epistemic logic. It is known from Kooi (2007) that adding public substitutions to such a logic adds expressivity over the class K of models. Here I show that substitutions also add expressivity over the classes KD45, S4 and S5 of models. Since the combination of common knowledge, public announcements and substitutions, was shown in Kooi (2007) to be equally expressive to relativized common knowledge these results also show that relativized common knowledge is more expressive than common knowledge and public announcements over KD45, S4 and S5. These results therefore extend the result from van Benthem et al. (2006) that shows that relativized common knowledge is more expressive than common knowledge and public announcements over K.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2013 

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