Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A Conventionalist Account of Logic (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)

Paul F. Syverson

ISBN 10: 157586391X / ISBN 13: 9781575863917

Editore: Center for the Study of Language, 2002

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• Titolo: Logic, Convention, and Common Knowledge: A Conventionalist Account of Logic (Center for the Study of Language and Information - Lecture Notes)
• Editore: Center for the Study of Language
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 157586391X
• ISBN 13: 9781575863917
• Rilegatura: Hardcover
• Condizione: Acceptable

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One of the fundamental theses of this book is that logical consequence and logical truth are not simply given, but arise as conventions among the users of logic. Thus Syverson explains convention within a game-theoretic framework, as a kind of equilibrium between the strategies of players in a game where they share common knowledge of events - a revisiting of Lewis's Convention that argues that convention can be reasonably treated as coordination equilibria. Most strikingly, a realistic solution is provided for Gray's classic coordination problem wherein two generals can only communicate with each other through unreliable means.