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Roy, Olivier ; Pacuit, Eric:
Of what one cannot speak, must one pass over in silence?
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2010
Abstract in another language
Putting together a number of known results from epistemic game theory and modal logic, we argue for a language-based perspective on the question of the existence of a universal knowledge structure.
We first survey known results on universal structures, and explain why the question is important for the foundations of game theory and interactive epistemology. We then observe that the notion universality that is used in the current literature is based on a very fine-grained, model-based description of the agents’ information. In a more coarse-grained, language-based perspective, universal structures do exist, and most of the structures used to show non-existence turns out to be informationally equivalent. We finish with some general remarks on the source of language-dependency, and observe that similar phenomena also occur for Harsanyi type spaces.
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| Item Type: | Preprint, postprint |
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| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy > Chair Philosophy I Faculties > Faculty of Cultural Studies > Department of Philosophy > Chair Philosophy I > Chair Philosophy I - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Olivier Roy Faculties |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 100 Philosophy and psychology > 100 Philosophy 100 Philosophy and psychology > 120 Epistemology 100 Philosophy and psychology > 160 Logic |
| Date Deposited: | 13 Feb 2018 10:56 |
| Last Modified: | 18 Mar 2019 10:41 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/40328 |