Epistemic Erotetic Search Scenarios

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to introduce erotetic search scenarios known from Inferential Erotetic Logic by using the framework of epistemic erotetic logic. The key notions used in this system are those of askability and epistemic erotetic implication. Scenarios are supposed to represent all rational strategies of an agent solving the problem posed by the initial question where the interaction with an external information source is seen as a series of updates of the agent's knowledge.

Managing Multiple Information Sources for a Questioning Agenda

“…Modifications on the level of interaction rules may be introduced to obtain the desired behaviours of our agents  e.g., to generate cooperative behaviours in a dialogue, see [11,12]. One may also adopt modified underlying normative concepts  e.g., use the e-scenario based on the notion of weak e-implication [29], falsificationist [5] or epistemic e-implication [15].…”

“…We will also describe how a strategy of questioning may be divided into two levels: group and individual level. This approach is mainly inspired by the epistemic interpretation of IEL proposed in [15,18,19,20,24], however, we still use only formal tools introduced 11 As pointed by the anonymous reviewer purely positive point system may lead to the situation when it is harder and harder to ask any previously unconsulted information source even though some of those that have been consulted withdraw in a high percentage of cases. earlier in the current paper.…”

“…2 See [35,27,10,11,29], and the overview in Section 2.2. 3 It is worth mentioning that [15] presents an early approach to the epistemic version of e-scenarios (for one questioning agent). Dynamic Epistemic Logic is used as a point of departure in the presented research.…”

“…Such assumptions are usually made when IEL framework is used to model information seeking procedures (see, e.g.,[11, Chs. 3 and 4],[12] or[15], see also for the empirical study of e-scenarios based strategies[14]). …”