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Record W7126411079 · doi:10.21428/594757db.fefbcf71

Frame Problem and Obligation-Producing actions

2025· article· en· W7126411079 on OpenAlexaff
Kalonji Kalala

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldPsychology
TopicPhilosophy and Theoretical Science
Canadian institutionsUniversity of Ottawa
Fundersnot available
KeywordsObligationAxiomSuccessor cardinalAction (physics)Frame (networking)Frame problemIntentionalityState (computer science)

Abstract

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This research extends a well-known solution by Scherl and Levesque to the classical frame problem for knowledge-producing actions to obligation-producing actions. An obligation-producing action is one which creates obligations on the part of whoever agent performs it. Both works have their roots in the seminal work of Raymond Reiter who proposed the so-called successor state axioms as a solution to the frame problem for actions that are neither knowledge, nor obligation producing. The specification in this paper yields intuitive properties that one would expect from obligations. Obligation-producing actions do only affect a newly introduced fluent for capturing the notion of obligation in the Situation Calculus, and no other fluents, except those fluents that are made obligatory by obligation-producing actions. In addition, persistence appears as a consequence of this new setting: if something is obligatory to an agent in a given situation, it remains obligatory everywhere as it should be, unless something contrary to the obligation occurs. We show that Reiter's regression operator for reasoning about actions back to the initial situation is a reasoning mechanism for this setting as well.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.958
Threshold uncertainty score0.837

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.027
GPT teacher head0.348
Teacher spread0.321 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designTheoretical or conceptual
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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