A reasoning approach to introspection and unawareness∗
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چکیده
We introduce and study a unified reasoning process which allows to represent the beliefs of both a fully rational agent and an unaware one. This reasoning process endows introspection and unawareness with natural properties. The corresponding model for the rational or boundedly rational agents is easy both to describe and to work with, and the agent’s full system of beliefs has natural descriptions using a reduced number of parameters.
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