Using Justified True Beliefs to Explore Formal Ignorance

The possibility of better understanding belief and knowledge modalities through justifications is not a novel one, however, the machinery of justifications has never been employed to explore the nature of ignorance from a formal perspective. By including justification terms into a modal logic for belief a major project (among others) can be pursued: different cognitive attitudes can be formalized that imply ignorance, therefore highlighting even better the possible culprits of the emergence of the phenomenon of being ignorant. This would allow the possibility of developing strategies that could be employed in different scenarios to tackle ignorance, thus adapting interventions to the specific situations in which ignorance arises.