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Where does revelation collide?

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Literary theory

The narrative moment of disclosure

In literary theory, revelation is the moment in a story when knowledge hidden from a character or the audience is brought to light, turning ignorance into recognition. Aristotle's Poetics (ca. 335 B.C.E.) named this turn anagnorisis, a change from not knowing to knowing that, at its strongest, coincides with the reversal of the hero's fortunes. The referent is a structural event inside a plot, described by what is disclosed and when, and it has nothing to do with a deity making itself known or with a rule that induces honest reporting: it is a device of storytelling.[1]

Unit
A single disclosure event within a plot, placed by where it falls in the story
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Identified by close reading of a text, marking where withheld knowledge is delivered and to whom

Economics and decision theory

Truthful disclosure of private information

In economics and decision theory, revelation is the disclosure of private information that agents would otherwise keep hidden, and the study of rules that make honest disclosure an agent's own best move. Allan Gibbard's 1973 result on the manipulation of voting schemes showed when no rule can rule out strategic misreporting, and Roger Myerson's 1979 work on incentive compatibility established the revelation principle: for any mechanism there is an equivalent one in which every agent simply reports its private information truthfully. The referent is a property of a designed mechanism and the information it draws out, not a turn in a story or a deity disclosing itself.[2][3]

Unit
One agent's truthful report of private information under a mechanism
Recovery means
Not applicable
Measured by
Analysed formally by checking whether truthful reporting is an equilibrium of the mechanism

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References

  1. Aristotle. (1996). Poetics (M. Heath, Trans.). Penguin Books. (Original work published ca. 335 B.C.E.)
  2. Gibbard, A. (1973). Manipulation of voting schemes: A general result. Econometrica, 41(4), 587–601. https://doi.org/10.2307/1914083
  3. Myerson, R. B. (1979). Incentive compatibility and the bargaining problem. Econometrica, 47(1), 61–73. https://doi.org/10.2307/1912346

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