ABSTRACT

As she concludes this she will be confident that B also will V2 and hence that together they will V1, as appropriate to their situation.

The thinking set out here is intended to capture a possible simple form of co-operative reasoning, the closest we can get to a first person plural version of the reasoning at (1) to (3) above. It may be that it has faults as a reconstruction, that some alternative version of the reasoning of co-operative agents would be preferable. The extensive literature mentioned earlier offers many suggestions and options.