# An Epistemic Perspective on Agent Awareness

arXiv: https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.05977 · HTML: https://mlsanity.com/paper/2511.05977/

## Key facts

- No citing papers in the map yet (data through 14 Oct 2026).
- Builds on 3 of its 38 references that are in the map.
- First posted on arXiv 8 Nov 2025.

## Builds on (most cited first, 3 of 3)

- [Facebook and the Epistemic Logic of Friendship](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.6440/) (2013)
- [Knowledge, Awareness, and Bisimulation](https://mlsanity.com/paper/1310.6410/) (2013)
- [De Re Updates](https://mlsanity.com/paper/2106.11497/) (2021)

## Abstract (arXiv)

The paper proposes to treat agent awareness as a form of knowledge, breaking the tradition in the existing literature on awareness. It distinguishes the de re and de dicto forms of such knowledge. The work introduces two modalities capturing these forms and formally specifies their meaning using a version of 2D-semantics. The main technical result is a sound and complete logical system describing the interplay between the two proposed modalities and the standard "knowledge of the fact" modality.