Authors
Alexandru Baltag
Sonja Smets
Date (dd-mm-yyyy)
2025-12
Title
Comparing Knowledge
Subtitle
An Analysis of the Relative Epistemic Powers of Groups
Journal
Philosophies
Volume
10
Publication Year
2025-12
Issue number
6
Document type
Article
Abstract

We use a novel type of epistemic logic, employing comparative knowledge assertions, to analyze the relative epistemic powers of individuals or groups of agents. Such comparative assertions can express that a group has the potential to (collectively) know everything that another group can know. Moreover, we look at comparisons involving various types of knowledge (fully introspective, positively introspective, etc.), satisfying the corresponding modal-epistemic conditions (e.g., (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.), (Formula presented.)). For each epistemic attitude, we are particularly interested in what agents or groups can know about their own epistemic position relative to that of others.

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