Name: Modality, Si! Modal Logic, No!
Creator: John J. McCarthy
Keywords: Logic in artificial intelligence, knowledge, Knowledge representation, 0202 electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering, 0102 computer and information sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Modal logic (including the logic of norms), 01 natural sciences, belief, modal logic

Modality, si! Modal logic, no!

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Jul 1997 English Publisher:Springer Science and Business Media LLCJournal:Studia Logica, volume 59, pages 29-32 (issn: 0039-3215, eissn: 1572-8730,

Authors: John J. McCarthy;

doi: 10.1023/a:1004943332720

Modality, Si! Modal Logic, No!

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In this brief note, the author recalls some examples of statements that use modal notions but which, it would seem, cannot be represented adequately by the usual modal logics. The notions involved are those of believing, knowing, intending, desiring, and being under an obligation; the examples are gathered mainly from earlier publications of the author, going back to 1978.

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Logic in artificial intelligence, knowledge, Knowledge representation, Modal logic (including the logic of norms), belief, modal logic

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