Knowledge, negation, and incompatibility (1969), p. 582
by Englebretsen, George
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- Aristotelian family
- Classical Sigma-2
- Boolean complexity
- 3
- Number of labels per vertex (at most)
- 1
- Uniqueness of the vertices up to logical equivalence
- Yes
- Errors in the diagram
- No
- Shape
- Rectangle (irregular)
- Colinearity range
- 0
- Coplanarity range
- 0
- Cospatiality range
- 0
- Representation of contradiction
- By central symmetry
Logic
Geometry
- Conceptual info
- No
- Mnemonic support (AEIO, purpurea ...)
- No
- Form
- none
- Label type
- symbolic
- Symbolic field
- logic
- Contains partial formulas or symbols
- Yes
- Logical system
- epistemic logic
Vertex description
Edge description
- Diagram is colored
- No
- Diagram is embellished
- No
Style
Additional notes
- Interpretation of the symbols (cf. pp. 581-582):
$S$ stands for 'a knows that p'
$\sim\!S$ stands for 'it is not the case that a knows that p'
$\overline{S}$ stands for 'a doesn't know that p'
$S-$ stands for 'a knows that -p'
Note that $\sim\!S$ has a different meaning than $\overline{S}$. After all, $\overline{S}$, i.e. 'a doesn't know that p', is equivalent to 'a merely believes or doubts or disbelieves or is uncertain about or ... p', and thus entails that a is at the very least aware of p, while $\sim\!S$, i.e. 'it is not the case that a knows that p' does NOT entail that a is even aware of p (cf. p. 582).