Variations on distributed belief

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Main Authors: Lindqvist, John, Velázquez-Quesada, Fernando R., Ågotnes, Thomas
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author Lindqvist, John
Velázquez-Quesada, Fernando R.
Ågotnes, Thomas
author_facet Lindqvist, John
Velázquez-Quesada, Fernando R.
Ågotnes, Thomas
contents Motivated by the search for forms of distributed belief that do not collapse in the face of conflicting information, this paper introduces the notions of cautious and bold distributed belief. Both notions rely on maximally consistent subgroups of agents, with cautious quantifying universally and bold quantifying existentially. As a result, while the cautious distributed belief of a group is inconsistent only when all group members are individually inconsistent, the bold distributed belief of a group is never inconsistent. The paper discusses these two notions, presenting their respective modalities and semantic interpretations, discussing some of their basic properties, studying whether they preserve doxastic properties from the members of the group, and comparing them not only with standard distributed belief but also with one another, both at the level of modalities and at the level of language expressivity.
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Lindqvist, John
Velázquez-Quesada, Fernando R.
Ågotnes, Thomas
Logic in Computer Science
Motivated by the search for forms of distributed belief that do not collapse in the face of conflicting information, this paper introduces the notions of cautious and bold distributed belief. Both notions rely on maximally consistent subgroups of agents, with cautious quantifying universally and bold quantifying existentially. As a result, while the cautious distributed belief of a group is inconsistent only when all group members are individually inconsistent, the bold distributed belief of a group is never inconsistent. The paper discusses these two notions, presenting their respective modalities and semantic interpretations, discussing some of their basic properties, studying whether they preserve doxastic properties from the members of the group, and comparing them not only with standard distributed belief but also with one another, both at the level of modalities and at the level of language expressivity.
title Variations on distributed belief
topic Logic in Computer Science
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10637