Descriptor revision : belief change through direct choice / Sven Ove Hansson.
2017
BF637.C4
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Title
Descriptor revision : belief change through direct choice / Sven Ove Hansson.
Author
Hansson, Sven Ove, 1951-
ISBN
9783319530611 (electronic book)
3319530615 (electronic book)
9783319530604
3319530615 (electronic book)
9783319530604
Imprint
Cham : Springer, c2017.
Language
English
Description
1 online resource : illustrations.
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10.1007/978-3-319-53061-1 doi
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BF637.C4
Dewey Decimal Classification
158.1
Summary
This book provides a critical examination of how the choice of what to believe is represented in the standard model of belief change. In particular the use of possible worlds and infinite remainders as objects of choice is critically examined. Descriptors are introduced as a versatile tool for expressing the success conditions of belief change, addressing both local and global descriptor revision. The book presents dynamic descriptors such as Ramsey descriptors that convey how an agent’s beliefs tend to be changed in response to different inputs. It also explores sentential revision and demonstrates how local and global operations of revision by a sentence can be derived as a special case of descriptor revision. Lastly, the book examines revocation, a generalization of contraction in which a specified sentence is removed in a process that may possibly also involve the addition of some new information to the belief set.-- Provided by publisher.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Series
Trends in logic ; v. 46.
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