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Information walls and norm-dependent abilities

Information walls and norm-dependent abilities
Information walls and norm-dependent abilities
The article studies the interplay between obligations, knowledge, and abilities. It introduces the notion of norm-dependent abilities--something that an agent knows how to achieve using a knowingly allowed action and assuming that the other agents also use only knowingly allowed actions. The main technical contribution is a sound and complete logical system that describes the interplay between the modalities representing knowledge, obligations, and norm-dependent abilities in the presence of information walls between the agents.
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Naumov, Pavel
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Zhang, Wenxuan
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Naumov, Pavel
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Zhang, Wenxuan
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Naumov, Pavel and Zhang, Wenxuan (2026) Information walls and norm-dependent abilities. Synthese, 207, [39]. (doi:10.1007/s11229-025-05314-x).

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The article studies the interplay between obligations, knowledge, and abilities. It introduces the notion of norm-dependent abilities--something that an agent knows how to achieve using a knowingly allowed action and assuming that the other agents also use only knowingly allowed actions. The main technical contribution is a sound and complete logical system that describes the interplay between the modalities representing knowledge, obligations, and norm-dependent abilities in the presence of information walls between the agents.

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Accepted/In Press date: 6 October 2025
e-pub ahead of print date: 8 January 2026
Published date: 8 January 2026
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Local EPrints ID: 506689
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/506689
DOI: doi:10.1007/s11229-025-05314-x
ISSN: 0039-7857
PURE UUID: 4ed7bf46-474d-4ec1-b057-51fe22dc5c03
ORCID for Pavel Naumov: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1687-045X

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Date deposited: 13 Nov 2025 17:55
Last modified: 14 Jan 2026 03:02

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Author: Pavel Naumov ORCID iD
Author: Wenxuan Zhang

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