Knowledge and Belief: An Introduction to the Logic of the Two Notions

Introduction

Hintikka published “Knowledge and Belief” in 1962 at Cornell University Press. The short book treats the expressions “a knows that p” and “a believes that p” as logical operators and interprets them, in the spirit of the possible-worlds semantics then being developed, by the alternatives compatible with what a person knows or believes. It analyses questions such as whether knowing implies knowing that one knows. The book founded epistemic logic as a field; its methods were later taken up in computer science, artificial intelligence and game theory, where reasoning about knowledge became a research area of its own.

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