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    Challenges→Iterated announcements can be self-refuting rather than self-fulfilling.

    Self-refutation requires a statement to undermine its own truth-conditions, but in iterated announcement logic each round's announcement is evaluated at a distinct epistemic state.

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    Key Terms

    Announcement(formal logic)
    In logic, a public statement that is declared to be true, which causes listeners to update their knowledge.
    Iterated announcement logic(formal logic and epistemology)
    A formal system for analyzing what happens when statements are repeatedly announced and people update their knowledge based on each announcement in sequence.
    epistemic state(used interchangeably with 'cognitive state' in the passage)
    A cognitive state; the way things are represented or appear from the standpoint of a knowing subject
    self-refutation(as what happens to sensory foundationalism)
    When a theory or argument contradicts itself or undermines its own claims, making it logically impossible for the theory to be true.
    truth-conditions

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    The conditions under which a sentence or statement is true, which truth-conditional theories identify with sentence meaning.

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