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Questions are triggers for explicit events of ‘issue management’. We give a complete logic in dynamic-epistemic style for events of raising, refining, and resolving an issue, all in the presence of information flow through observation or communication. We explore extensions of the framework to multi-agent scenarios and long-term temporal protocols. We sketch a comparison with some alternative accounts.
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van Benthem, J., Minică, Ş. Toward a Dynamic Logic of Questions. J Philos Logic 41, 633–669 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10992-012-9233-7
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