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Revisiting the state-space model of unawareness

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We propose a knowledge operator based on the agent's possibility correspondence which preserves her non-trivial unawareness within the standard state-space model. Our approach may provide a solution to the classical impossibility result that 'an unaware agent must be aware of everything'.

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  • Alex A. T. Rathke, 2024. "Revisiting the state-space model of unawareness," Papers 2409.09818, arXiv.org.
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