Leibniz's Notion of Conditional Right and the Dynamics of Public Announcement

The main aim of our paper is to implement Leibniz's analysis of the conditional right in the framework of a dialogical approach to Public Announcement Logic. According to our view, on one hand: PAL furnishes a dynamic epistemic operator which models communication exchange between different agents that seems to be very close to Leibniz understanding of the dynamics between the truth of a proposition and the knowledge of the truth of that proposition (Leibniz calls the latter certification of its truth); on the other hand, the dialogical approach provides a semantics for the dynamic epistemic operator in the context of conditional right by means of which: (i) the exchange between agents leading to a public announcement amounts to the (contractual) interaction of commitments of both the benefactor and the beneficiary of a conditional right (ii) the notion of certification is understood as an action, namely as a move where the beneficiary asks the benefactor to stand to his commitments, (iii) some restrictions specific to the logical nature of the head and the tail of the conditional right can be implemented by combining PAL with some features of linear logic within the same theory of meaning.

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Source ISSN: 2069-0533
Author Magnier, Sébastien, Rahman, Shahid
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 10, 2026, 13:26 (UTC)
Created May 10, 2026, 13:26 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00838937
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contributor Savoirs, Textes, Langage (STL) - UMR 8163 (STL) ; Université de Lille-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Magnier, Sébastien
date 2012-05-10T00:00:00
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