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Leonardi.DB
a logical geometry project

Knowledge, negation, and incompatibility (1969), p. 583
by Englebretsen, George

Logic

Aristotelian family
Classical Sigma-2
Boolean complexity
3
Number of labels per vertex (at most)
1

Geometry

Shape
Rectangle (irregular)
Colinearity range
0
Coplanarity range
0
Cospatiality range
0
Representation of contradiction
By central symmetry

Vertex description

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

Edge description

Style

Diagram is colored
No
Diagram is embellished
No

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).
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