TL;DR
The paper demonstrates that rational agents with true, refinable knowledge cannot determine whether they know everything, highlighting fundamental epistemic limitations that persist despite introspection or learning.
Contribution
It reveals an inherent limitation in rational agents' knowledge, showing they cannot know if they have complete knowledge regardless of introspection or new information.
Findings
Agents cannot know if they know everything.
Introspection about tautologies does not resolve this.
Learning about new events does not eliminate this limitation.
Abstract
We show that a rational agent with true and refinable knowledge of events cannot know if she knows everything or not. This epistemic limitation is not resolved by introspection about tautologies or by learning about new events.
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