Tableaux for epistemic Gödel logic

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Main Authors: Bílková, Marta, Ferguson, Thomas, Kozhemiachenko, Daniil
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Published: 2025
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author Bílková, Marta
Ferguson, Thomas
Kozhemiachenko, Daniil
author_facet Bílková, Marta
Ferguson, Thomas
Kozhemiachenko, Daniil
contents We propose a multi-agent epistemic logic capturing reasoning with degrees of plausibility that agents can assign to a given statement, with $1$ interpreted as "entirely plausible for the agent" and $0$ as "completely implausible" (i.e., the agent knows that the statement is false). We formalise such reasoning in an expansion of Gödel fuzzy logic with an involutive negation and multiple $\mathbf{S5}$-like modalities. As already Gödel single-modal logics are known to lack the finite model property w.r.t. their standard $[0,1]$-valued Kripke semantics, we provide an alternative semantics that allows for the finite model property. For this semantics, we construct a strongly terminating tableaux calculus that allows us to produce finite counter-models of non-valid formulas. We then use the tableaux to show that the validity problem in our logic is $\mathsf{PSpace}$-complete when there are two or more agents, and $\mathsf{coNP}$-complete for the single-agent case.
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spellingShingle Tableaux for epistemic Gödel logic
Bílková, Marta
Ferguson, Thomas
Kozhemiachenko, Daniil
Logic
We propose a multi-agent epistemic logic capturing reasoning with degrees of plausibility that agents can assign to a given statement, with $1$ interpreted as "entirely plausible for the agent" and $0$ as "completely implausible" (i.e., the agent knows that the statement is false). We formalise such reasoning in an expansion of Gödel fuzzy logic with an involutive negation and multiple $\mathbf{S5}$-like modalities. As already Gödel single-modal logics are known to lack the finite model property w.r.t. their standard $[0,1]$-valued Kripke semantics, we provide an alternative semantics that allows for the finite model property. For this semantics, we construct a strongly terminating tableaux calculus that allows us to produce finite counter-models of non-valid formulas. We then use the tableaux to show that the validity problem in our logic is $\mathsf{PSpace}$-complete when there are two or more agents, and $\mathsf{coNP}$-complete for the single-agent case.
title Tableaux for epistemic Gödel logic
topic Logic
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04642