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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254293603321

Autore

Hansson Sven Ove

Titolo

Descriptor Revision : Belief Change through Direct Choice / / by Sven Ove Hansson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-53061-5

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XVIII, 239 p. 18 illus.)

Collana

Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library, , 1572-6126 ; ; 46

Disciplina

153

Soggetti

Logic

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Database management

Knowledge, Theory of

Mathematical Logic and Formal Languages

Database Management

Epistemology

Mathematical Logic and Foundations

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sommario/riassunto

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.