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The notions of agent's behavior and fundamental knowledge for decision making are introduced. Then it is shown how mutual knowledge, i.e. knowledge of the form: agent i 1 knows that agent i 2 knows that ... tht agent i n knows that ... is used by the rational agents. This use is, following Wittgenstein (1958), regarded as meaning of this knowledge.
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My thanks are due to Professor J.Łoś for inspiration and many helpful discussions.
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Ambroszkiewicz, S. (1993). Mutual knowledge. In: Komorowski, J., Raś, Z.W. (eds) Methodologies for Intelligent Systems. ISMIS 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 689. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-56804-2_48
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