Transmission Failure, AGM Style

Transmission Failure, AGM Style

This article provides a discussion of the principle of transmission of evidential support across entailment from the perspective of belief revision theory in the AGM tradition. After outlining and briefly defending a small number of basic principles of belief change, which include a number of belief...

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Veröffentlicht in:Erkenntnis 2013-04, Vol.78 (2), p.383-398
1. Verfasser: Chandler, Jake
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Biconditionals
Cash
Counterexamples
Criminal sentencing
Education
Entailment
Epistemology
Ethics
Grammatical conjunctions
Logic
Logical givens
Logical postulates
Mathematical functions
Ontology
Original Article
Philosophical logics. Philosophy of language
Philosophy
Ramsey test
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Zusammenfassung:This article provides a discussion of the principle of transmission of evidential support across entailment from the perspective of belief revision theory in the AGM tradition. After outlining and briefly defending a small number of basic principles of belief change, which include a number of belief contraction analogues of the Darwiche-Pearl postulates for iterated revision, a proposal is made concerning the connection between evidential beliefs and belief change policies in rational agents. This proposal is found to be sufficient to establish the truth of a much-discussed intuition regarding transmission failure.
ISSN:0165-0106
1572-8420
DOI:10.1007/s10670-012-9364-9